MailFrontier’s™ Next Generation Anti-Spam Enterprise Solution Delivers Highest Levels of Spam Blocking for Corporations Plagued by Spam
Comprehensive per-user spam management provides total email accountability, creating a win-win situation between IT managers and corporate users


Palo Alto, Ca, May 20, 2003 – MailFrontier, a company fast emerging as the leader in protecting corporate email from spam, today released MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway™ 2.0 - a major leap forward for enterprise customers. Until now, the more effective a solution became at blocking spam, the more likely it was to cause false positives. As a result, IT managers have had to deal with a growing number of complaint calls from users looking for ‘lost’ emails. With MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway 2.0, IT managers can grant individuals the ability to view their own junk email, creating a win-win situation between IT and users, and greatly increasing productivity for both.

“We heard the same horror story from many businesses,” said Pavni Diwanji, CEO of MailFrontier. “Installing an anti-spam solution would solve one problem but cause another. The right approach is to give individuals their own junk email box, thereby reducing IT support costs.”

MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway 2.0 is the first solution that employs an arsenal of user-specific spam-fighting techniques, and offers a painless way for each user to confirm that their emails deemed spam are indeed spam.

“We deployed an anti-spam solution for our five offices, but spam was still getting through and we were getting a lot of helpdesk calls,” said Jason Cunningham, VP of IT for RJ Griffin, a $500 million general contractor firm. “When we replaced our existing solution with MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway we discovered that over 70% of our email was spam. With MailFrontier, spam disappeared. Our employees noticed the difference immediately. And our legitimate mail is intact.”


"An important measure of an enterprise anti-spam solution is how well it deals with email that can't be judged with 100% certainty to be spam," said Michael Osterman, President and Founder of Osterman Research, a market research firm that provides spam market research, cost modeling and benchmarking. "Many solutions fall short by excluding the intended recipient in the decision making process. As a result, business critical email gets blocked, which is not acceptable in enterprise environments."

MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway User Features
MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway 2.0 is the next generation enterprise solution, blocking spam at the gateway while allowing IT to selectively grant users a host of new capabilities to ensure all legitimate emails get through, including the ability to:

With these powerful new capabilities, MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway delivers the most effective spam blocking available, reduces the IT administrative burden of spam management and gives users full assurance that all legitimate email is getting through.

Pricing and Availability
Pricing is calculated on a per-seat basis and includes software upgrades, support, and real-time updates of all statistical heuristics, filters, community thumbprints, and black and whitelists. MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway scales for corporations with multiple sites and over 100,000 users, is available for use on Windows and Solaris platforms, and works with any mail server and any mail client.

About MailFrontier
MailFrontier is a leading provider of next-generation messaging security solutions that make email communication more productive and secure in the work place. The company’s award-winning enterprise solution, MailFrontier Anti-Spam Gateway, blocks approximately 98% of spam before it enters a corporation, while at the same time allowing users to ensure that all legitimate email gets through. The solution eliminates the need for ongoing IT oversight, which is inherent in most other anti-spam solutions. The product employs an arsenal of spam-fighting techniques, applies the techniques in a way that is individualized for each user, and gives every user a chance to confirm that any of his/her emails considered spam are indeed spam. The company’s award-winning desktop product, MailFrontier Matador, seamlessly integrates into Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express. MailFrontier solutions scale from a single individual user to over 100,000 corporate users.

MailFrontier investors include New Enterprise Associates (NEA) and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). MailFrontier is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and can be reached at (650) 424-8630. For more information please visit www.mailfrontier.com.


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