Sendmail, Inc. this week announced an OEM deal that will enable it to use Network Associates' McAfee anti-virus tools with the Sendmail Mailstream Manager email service.
Sendmail provides email services to enterprises as well as large-scale email software to other service providers, all based on the Internet standard sendmail mail server. The OEM deal will enable Sendmail to deploy McAfee anti-virus tools at the email server level, the idea being to stop viruses before they ever reach individual users' email clients.
The company will scan the body of email messages as well as attachments, for incoming and outgoing mail. Mailstream Manager handles mail both internally to an organization and externally.
The virus scanning feature will add to existing Mailstream Manager features that include content policy controls and a deployment topology that promotes redundancy. Administrators can manage all the features from a single, centralized interface.
Scheduled to be available in April, the anti-virus capability will be sold on an annual subscription basis, with prices ranging from $1.28 to $14 per user, depending on the number of users. Renewals range from 75 cents to $4.50 per user. Two Mailstream Manager components, the Sendmail Attachment Filter and Sendmail Switch, are prerequisites for the anti-virus component.
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