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MIRAPOINT CLOSES STRONGEST Q1 IN COMPANY HISTORY
Six consecutive record revenue quarters; company now serves and secures more than 100 million mailboxes for customers worldwide

SUNNYVALE, CA., June 8, 2005 – Mirapoint, the secure messaging experts, today announced that it has closed its strongest quarter ever and hit an installed base milestone of more than 100 million mailboxes served and secured. Other financial milestones include eight consecutive quarters of sequential growth, Q1 gross margin hitting a historical high and the company experiencing 40 percent annual growth in 2004.

Strong Customer Growth
Driving this growth, customers such as World Bank, BT, Fujitsu Services, Ford Motor Co., University of Chicago and RSA Security have selected Mirapoint for its comprehensive approach to messaging delivery and security. Mirapoint's Message Server and RazorGate appliances enable organizations to build message networks that intelligently and securely route, store, access and manage email.

"By assuring the messaging infrastructure we build is not only high–performance and high–reliability, but completely secure, Mirapoint offers the only complete, secure messaging solution," said Barry Ariko, chief executive officer for Mirapoint. "This has translated into the strongest Q1 Mirapoint has experienced in the seven years we have been in business."

New HP Channel Partnership
In May, RazorGate 100 email security appliance based on HP's ProLiant DL140 servers became available directly through HP, its authorized resellers and Mirapoint. Also in May, InfoWorld Magazine gave the RazorGate 100 its highest recognition available – an "Excellent" rating and 9.2 leadership score. InfoWorld commented on Mirapoint's 97 percent spam catch rate, its unique ability to reject a large portion of spam without even having to filter it and the strong reporting and management tools.

"Sales growth in our key target markets, enterprise, service provider and education, grew in the last quarter, largely due to our increased channel focus," said Christophe Culine, senior vice president of sales for Mirapoint. "This year, we launched a new VAR program focused on email security and have added more than 100 new channel partners, who are driving increased sales of our award–winning RazorGate appliance. In addition, our recently cemented partnership with HP dramatically expands the reach of our sales team with a proven channel powerhouse."

• MailHurdle appliance provides a first line of defense at the SMTP–layer to block and drop unwanted connections at the network edge.

• Junk Mail Manager works with any existing email server, including Microsoft Exchange, to provide uniquely flexible end–user controls for managing false–positives by keeping spam out of users' inboxes and quarantining unwanted traffic at the network edge.

• Rapid Anti–Virus technology adds an additional layer of real–time protection. By using information collected on a global basis from network probes to address emerging threats, Rapid Anti–Virus helps customers identify viruses in minutes from ground zero of an outbreak.

Mirapoint is the only vendor in the industry with proven email server and security appliances that offer "five nines" reliability and the industry's lowest TCO for any size organization. Mirapoint's Message Server is the industry's only dedicated appliance that integrates email routing, storage, access and management with Mirapoint's comprehensive, multi–layered, Full–Spectrum™ email security. Mirapoint's RazorGate email security appliances provide multi–layered protection at the network edge to block hackers, spam, and virus threats, as well as provide advanced management of message traffic through policy enforcement tools, content filters, and detailed reporting. Together the Mirapoint Message Server and Razorgate deliver a secure messaging infrastructure to enterprises worldwide.

About Mirapoint
Founded in 1997, Mirapoint is the market leader in appliance-based solutions for secure message networks in enterprise, service provider, and education organizations, with more than 115 million mailboxes served and secured worldwide. Customers use Mirapoint appliances to build the messaging infrastructure that intelligently serves, secures and manages email. Mirapoint is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices throughout North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. For more information on Mirapoint, visit its Web site at www.mirapoint.com.

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