MailChannels Corporation is an anti-spam

Spam (electronic)

Spam is the use of electronic messaging systems to send unsolicited bulk messages indiscriminately...

 technology company founded in 2004 and based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The firm was created by some former employees of ActiveState

ActiveState

ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services...

 to develop new techniques for fighting spam. The company's first product, "Traffic Control," is a software-based SMTP proxy that provides tar-pitting and transparent SMTP proxy functionality. At the 2007 MIT Spam Conference, the company's founder, Ken Simpson, was awarded the "best paper" award.

In September 2010, the company launched an outbound spam protection product called "MailChannels Outbound" that claims to be capable of filtering up to 30 millions messages per hour, transparently, within a network.

External links

• WHIR 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
• MailChannels Blog announcement about outbound spam filtering
• MailChannels Outbound Product Page