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StrongMail Systems and Goodmail Systems Announce Strategic Alliance

Alliance Ensures Safety of Email for AOL and Yahoo! Members; Convenience and Cost Savings for Email Senders

REDWOOD SHORES, CA - October 31, 2005 - StrongMail Systems, Inc., the innovation leader in email infrastructure, today announced a strategic alliance with Goodmail Systems, Inc., creators of CertifiedEmail - a new class of email to help shield consumers from spam, fraud and phishing. The Goodmail CertifiedEmail service identifies email from Goodmail-accredited senders and assures delivery to the inboxes of subscribers of leading mailbox providers including AOL and Yahoo! where the emails are labeled with a symbol indicating that they are safe to open.

Under the alliance, StrongMail will offer a Goodmail-tested and approved appliance pre-configured with the token imprinting capabilities for Goodmail's CertifiedEmail service. To qualify for this distinction, the StrongMail platform has passed Goodmail's rigorous stress testing, met high scalability and throughput requirements, and will operate with the most current version of Goodmail specifications at all times.

The availability of a Goodmail-approved appliance from StrongMail will simplify implementation of the Goodmail CertifiedEmail service. Rather than implementing Goodmail's software developer kit (SDK), email senders can purchase a StrongMail appliance with the imprinter functionality built in, plug it into their existing email infrastructure, and immediately start benefiting from the Goodmail CertifiedEmail service. By so doing, senders will enjoy easy installation, cost savings, quicker time to market, and StrongMail's guaranteed stability and reliability.

StrongMail recognizes services, such as Goodmail, as critical to achieving sender accountability, thereby restoring trust and reliability to the email channel. As such, the company will integrate Goodmail Systems functionality into all of its products - both software and appliance. StrongMail customers will have the option to enable the Goodmail CertifiedEmail service and the two companies are working together to streamline the accreditation process for those who qualify. Importantly, StrongMail will not impose incremental set-up charges, CPM or other fees for customers to access the service.

"StrongMail's mission is to restore reliability to email as a business-critical channel for communication and commerce by providing the infrastructure all email senders now require, enterprises as well as software and service providers," said Frank Addante, founder of StrongMail Systems. "StrongMail's strategic alliance with Goodmail is in line with this mission, and will contribute to the health of the email channel overall."

"Goodmail Systems and StrongMail share the goal of bringing greater efficiency and reliability to email," said Daniel T. Dreymann, co-founder and SVP product, engineering and operations at Goodmail Systems, Inc. "We have chosen to partner with StrongMail because of its emergence as an industry leader in providing a high-performance platform to create, deliver and manage email communications. Our combined technologies will provide an easy way to implement the tokenization of messages as Goodmail CertifiedEmail for assured delivery by ISPs and safe recognition by consumers."

About Goodmail Systems, Inc.

Goodmail Systems^TM created its CertifiedEmail service, the highest standard in email certification, to provide a safe and reliable class of email for the benefit of consumers, legitimate senders and mailbox providers. Working closely with ISPs and mailbox providers, the Goodmail CertifiedEmail service offers a new class of email that shields consumers from spam, fraud and phishing scams. Goodmail's executives are respected and trusted by key thought leaders in the industry and have become a major voice in the dialog on solving the vexing problems that affect the email ecosystem. For more information, see www.goodmailsystems.com.

About StrongMail Systems, Inc.

StrongMail Systems, the innovation leader in email infrastructure software, is the only company that has solved the email challenge at its core, thereby empowering businesses to fix, enhance and extend their email communications. StrongMail Systems has pioneered the email application server - the industry's first complete, fully integrated infrastructure solution for outbound email. Companies use StrongMail software to email-enable disparate business assets, and deliver marketing messages, order confirmations, and other transactional communications seamlessly and in real-time. StrongMail is application agnostic and easily integrates with CRM, e-commerce and financial applications, as well as custom developed solutions to unlock the potential of email for enterprises, service providers and ISV's. Founded in 2002, StrongMail Systems is privately held and funded by Globespan Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital and Evercore Ventures. The Company is headquartered in Redwood Shores, CA, and can be found on the Web at www.strongmail.com.

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