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Mailshell Releases a
Low Memory Version of Its Award-Winning Anti-Spam Toolkit
Minimal Memory Required For Consistently High Spam
Filtering Accuracy
LINUX WORLD, SAN FRANCISCO - August 3,
2004 - Mailshell, the OEM anti-spam leader, today introduced
a new Linux-based low-memory version of its enterprise-grade
spam-filtering engine, which can be embedded almost
anywhere. More than 4,000 companies and 10 million consumers
already rely on 'Powered by Mailshell' products to block
spam.
Companies have been eager to embed anti-spam
into their existing low-memory products either to generate
new incremental subscription-based revenue or simply
to remain competitive. Mailshell's new SDK Lite requires
less than 200KB of code on the device, and can be embedded
into any product including mobile devices, wireless
access points, desktop routers, firewalls, modems, and
other low memory devices.
"The SDK Lite serves OEMs who had wanted
the accuracy of the Mailshell SDK but could not afford
the memory requirements," said Tonny Yu, president and
CEO of Mailshell. "Initial trials among OEM prospects
already indicate that it's a unique and compelling solution."
The SDK Lite translates incoming messages
into a complex set of spam tags, which accurately identifies
the spam attributes of the message. This engine transmits
the spam tags to one of Mailshell's worldwide data centers
where it is compared against millions of spam tags in
Mailshell's databases. The SDK Lite then returns a 'spam
score', the probability between 0% and 100% that the
message is spam. Customers set a 'spam score' threshold,
above which messages will be considered spam.
"Despite the popularity of spam filtering
ASPs, many CIOs still don't want their mission-critical
email routed to a third party," said Tonny Yu. "The
SDK Lite allows email to remain within the company's
network but have the spam accurately filtered out with
minimal setup and maintenance."
The SDK Lite boasts the same award-winning
accuracy as the flagship Mailshell SDK. The primary
differences between the two are memory size and speed.
The flagship SDK is more than five times faster than
the SDK Lite, though requires a much larger memory footprint.
The SDK Lite is currently available on Linux with other
platforms available soon. Mailshell's flagship SDK is
available in a range of operating systems including
Linux, Windows, Solaris (Sparc and Intel), FreeBSD,
HP-UX, AIX and Mac OS X.
About Mailshell Inc.: Mailshell
is the OEM anti-spam leader. More than 4,000 companies
and 10 million consumers rely on 'Powered by Mailshell'
products to block spam. By using Mailshell's software
development kit, Mailshell's partners increase their
average revenue per customer, create new sources of
recurring revenue, and decrease sales and support costs.
The Mailshell Engine is the only anti-spam solution
developed explicitly to integrate spam-blocking technology
with common IT components, including security appliances,
mail servers, anti-virus applications and many others.
For more information: http://www.mailshell.com.
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Contact:
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group,
(310) 556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
