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Stalker Software Partners with Mailshell
to Provide Comprehensive Anti-Spam Capabilities
Mill Valley, CA - March 31, 2003 - Stalker Software,
Inc., the technology leader in messaging solutions,
today announced a strategic partnership with Mailshell,
a developer of the easiest and most accurate anti-spam
engine. Stalker Software will expand its existing anti-spam
capabilities by offering Mailshell's SpamCatcher as
a plug-in service to its CommuniGate Pro platform, allowing
e-mail users to easily benefit from SpamCatcher's comprehensive
filtering system.
Enterprises are migrating toward increasingly
aggressive solutions to help manage the exponential
growth of unsolicited e-mails that inundate employees
every day. According to Gartner, Inc., "by 2004, unless
an enterprise takes defensive action, more than 50 percent
of its message traffic will be spam." Employees spend
up to four hours each day managing their e-mail boxes,
costing corporations time and money.
"Because e-mail is among the most critical
services for our corporate customers, we selected CommuniGate
Pro based on its reliability, scalability, anti-virus
and anti-spam features. In response to the proliferation
of spam and its impact on our customers' ability to
effectively use e-mail as a business tool, Stalker Software
has provided advanced defenses," said William James,
president of JamesNetworks.com. "Now armed with SpamCatcher,
our CommuniGate Pro Server intelligently filters and
discards unwanted e-mail, enabling our clients to more
proactively communicate using the Internet."
The SpamCatcher engine identifies unsolicited
e-mail at the server level and integrates seamlessly
into the CommuniGate Pro platform. SpamCatcher uses
hundreds of spam-blocking rules, including pattern matches,
heuristic functions and proprietary and third-party
databases. Complex algorithms are applied to compute
the probability that each piece of e-mail is spam. SpamCatcher
also creates a fingerprint ID for every e-mail message
and compares it to existing fingerprints in its databases
in order to continuously analyze new spam, create new
rules and adjust the weighting of existing rules. Customers
can opt to receive scheduled or real-time rules updates.
"Many companies are looking for anti-spam
solutions that integrate seamlessly with their existing
applications," said Tonny Yu, CEO of Mailshell. "The
SpamCatcher engine lets CommuniGate Pro customers block
virtually all spam without any new integration or deployment
hassles."
"Because e-mail is the backbone for today's
business communication, spam has evolved from a mere
nuisance to a real business problem -- resulting in
thousands of hours of lost productivity," said Jacinta
Tobin, vice president of Business Development at Stalker
Software. "Stalker Software leads the messaging industry
in anti-spam functionality and was the first messaging
solution to incorporate anti-spam features in 1995.
Building on this heritage, our partnership with Mailshell
delivers a bolstered solution for eliminating spam and
restoring e-mail as an effective business tool."
Supporting more than 30 hardware and operating
system combinations including UNIX, Windows, AS/400,
mainframes and Mac OS X, CommuniGate Pro offers the
most advanced, robust messaging solution, optimized
to provide e-mail, collaboration, wireless and unified
messaging all on a single message store. Because of
the product's open standards-based architecture, CommuniGate
Pro provides high-performance integrated messaging,
supporting many types of content on a centralized platform
efficiently and reliably.
About Mailshell
Mailshell is the creator of SpamCatcher, the easiest
solution to spam. The company's products include anti-spam
software developers' tools and a suite of enterprise
and personal anti-spam products. Mailshell recently
earned an "Editor's Choice" award in PC Magazine's review
of spam filters, and has been dubbed "priceless" by
Forbes magazine, "excellent" by the Associated Press
and "easy to use" by CNET. Mailshell is based in Santa
Clara, CA, with an additional office in San Francisco.
For more information visit http://www.mailshell.com.
About Stalker Software
Founded in 1993, Stalker Software, Inc. is based in
Mill Valley, California. Stalker Software is the technology
leader in messaging solutions for more than 30 major
computer platforms. The company's core technology merges
security, reliability, scalability and a wide range
of integrated services, with ease of deployment and
maintenance. More than 5000 customers worldwide, ranging
from global telcos and ISPs to educational institutions
and corporations, service millions of accounts with
CommuniGate Pro.
For more information about Stalker Software,
Inc. and its products, please contact Alice Liptrot,
director of sales and marketing at (800) 262-4722 or
(415) 383-7164; by fax at (415) 383-7461; or e-mail
at ali@stalker.com. Visit the Stalker Software Web site
at http://www.stalker.com.
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Contact:
Ali Liptrot, Stalker Software, Inc., (415) 383-7164,
ali@stalker.com
Smita Topolski or Jaclyn Simon, Schwartz Communications,
(415) 512-0770, stalker@schwartz-pr.com
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group,
(310) 556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
