MailChannels
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| MailChannels Corporation | |
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| Type | Private |
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| Founded | 2003 |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada |
| Key people | CEO: Ken Simpson, Director of Research: Stas Bekman |
| Industry | Anti-spam techniques (e-mail) |
| Products | Traffic Control, a traffic shaping Transparent SMTP proxy |
| Revenue | Undisclosed |
| Operating income | Undisclosed |
| Net income | Undisclosed |
| Employees | At least 10 ( Dec 2006) |
| Slogan | Reliable Email Delivery |
| Website | www.mailchannels.com |
MailChannels is a Vancouver, Canada based company that specialises in protecting businesses with email security software.
Founded in 2003, MailChannels is a privately-owned company based in Vancouver, Canada. It produces high-end email security software intended for companies with more than 1000 employees. Its main product, "Traffic Control" applies Traffic shaping to email to selectively allocate network resources to different email senders - starving spam and virus addresses of the resources necessary to achieve their desired volume of mailing [1]. Traffic Control also uses a proprietary technique the company calls, "Real-Time SMTP Multiplexing," to reduce the connection load on the MTA it protects [2].
MailChannels' founders were also early employees of ActiveState, the software company mostly known for its commercial support of the Perl programming language; ActiveState's eventual financial success was based on its PureMessage anti-spam software. MailChannels' key staff include Stas Bekman, a software developer with the Apache Software Foundation who was sponsored by Ticketmaster to maintain the Apache mod perl open source project between 2001 and 2005.
MailChannels is also known for its efforts to fingerprint the world's email servers [3], an effort assisted by well-known computer security researcher Dan Kaminsky.
