MailChannels
| Type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computer Security |
| Founded | Vancouver, British Columbia (March 2004) |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (incorporated in Ottawa) |
| Key people | Ken Simpson, CEO Stas Bekman, Director of Research Mike Smith, Director of Development |
| Products | MailChannels Transparent Antispam, Smart Outbound Relay, SMTP proxy |
| Website | www.mailchannels.com |
MailChannels Corporation is a privately held company, anti-spam technology company founded in 2004 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm was created by former employees of ActiveState (acquired by Sophos) to develop new techniques for fighting email spam.
[edit] Company Activity
The company's first product was an SMTP proxy that provides tar-pitting and transparent SMTP proxy functionality for inbound email filtering. At the 2007 MIT Spam Conference, the company's founder, Ken Simpson, was awarded the "best paper" award.
In September 2010, the company launched an outbound email filtering product that claims to be capable of filtering up to 30 millions messages per hour, transparently, within a network. Outbound email filtering involves scanning email traffic as it exists a network, identifying spam bots hiding on the network and reducing the risk of having IP addresses blocked by receiving networks.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- WHIR Web Host Industry Review: MailChannels Provides Outbound Spam Filter to Web Host VPS.NET
- Washington Post: Technology Aims to Bore Impatient Spammers
- Network World: Tarpits deter impatient spammers
- The Register: Spam: It sucks like a tarpit
- O'Reilly Radar: Spamonomics 101
- OnLAMP: Developing High Performance Asynchronous IO Applications
- MailChannels Blog announcement about outbound spam filtering
- MailChannels Outbound Product Page
