Sendmail, Cloudmark team against spam
Sendmail, whose technology shuttles nearly 60 percent of e-mail on the Internet, has agreed to make Cloudmark's antispam filtering tools a centerpiece of its commercial mail management software.
SendMail produces open-source software that routes corporate e-mail to and from the Internet; 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies use the software on their networks. It also sells a commercial version that includes e-mail management and filtering services to protect enterprises against viruses and spam. By partnering with Cloudmark, Sendmail replaces its former antispam provider Elron Software, and it stakes its sales on the effectiveness of Cloudmark to fend off unwanted e-mail.
"Antispam is a very critical piece of mail management and mail filtering," Sendmail CEO Dave Anderson said. "Cloudmark is now the core of what we sell (in antispam). And we sell one consolidated package (for e-mail management) so that all of the e-mail quaranteed can be processed from one centralized location."
