May 23rd, 2007

Sendmail Adopts New Standard to Fight Email Fraud and Phishing

DKIM Support Across Product Line Builds Powerful Line of Defense

EMERYVILLE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sendmail, the leading provider of policy-centric solutions for securing and authenticating business communications, today announced the availability of Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) authentication technology in the company’s Sentrion security appliances, as well as commercial Sendmail Switch and Open Source mail servers. This announcement coincides with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approval of DKIM as an Internet Standard (see related release: “IETF Approves DomainKeys Identified Mail as Proposed Internet Standard; Authenticating Technology Addresses Fraudulent Email and Phishing Scams” dated today). By verifying incoming messages organizations can weed out targeted spoofing and phishing threats, reduce false positives and eliminate identifiable spam.