MailChannels
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | Information Security, SaaS |
| Founded | 2004 |
| Headquarters | Vancouver, Canada |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Ken Simpson, CEO |
| Products | Spam Filtering, Anti-spam |
| Services | Computer Security |
| Website | www |
MailChannels is a Canadian technology company specializing in email security and delivery solutions for businesses and internet service providers (ISPs). Founded in 2004 by Ken Simpson and headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, it operates in the areas of email security and infrastructure market. The company offers a range of products and services aimed at protecting email systems from spam, phishing, and other malicious content, while also ensuring reliable email delivery for legitimate messages.
Products
- MailChannels Outbound Filtering - It is a cloud-based email filtering and delivery platform designed to help web hosting providers combat spam, phishing and other email threats. By leveraging advanced machine learning algorithms and a globally distributed network of servers, it offers a scalable and effective solution for ensuring email security deliverability. The platform helps prevent the delivery of spam and malware, as well as protects recipients from malicious emails.
- MailChannels Transparent Filtering - It is an on-premise software solution. It is a high-performance email gateway designed for large enterprises and ISPs. It integrates with existing email infrastructure to provide advanced threat protection and improved email delivery performance.
MailChannels' customers include large web hosting companies, internet service providers, mailbox providers and email service providers such as DreamHost, Hostinger, Namecheap, and HostPapa.
Company History
The company was founded in 2004 by former engineers of ActiveState (acquired by Sophos), who created one of the first commercial spam filters.
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 2007, MailChannels joined M³AAWG and closed a series A round led by early Microsoft employees.
In 2010, the company launched an outbound email filtering software that claims to be capable of filtering up to 30 million messages per hour, transparently in the network. Outbound email filtering involves scanning email traffic as it exits the network, identifying compromised accounts, and reducing the risk of having IP addresses blocked by receiving networks.
In 2013, the company launched a cloud-based outbound email filtering service.
In 2018, the company launched a cloud-based inbound email filtering service.
In 2022, the company decided to stop supporting Plesk for outbound email filtering.
See also
References
External links
- MailChannels
- 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
- Case study on using Mail Channels within the hosting industry