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Mazda Motor Corporation Chooses Mail.com's Advanced MailWatch Protection Solution

28 September 2000

Mazda Motor Corporation Chooses Mail.com's Advanced MailWatch Protection Solution

    NEW YORK--Sept. 28, 2000--

Auto Industry Innovator Will Utilize Advanced Network-Level Anti-Virus, Spam Blocking and Content Filtering Services
    Mail.com, Inc. , a leading global Messaging Service Provider to businesses, today announced it will provide its MailWatch(R) e-mail firewall services to Mazda North American Operations.
    The advanced MailWatch(R) solution shields corporations from harmful computer viruses, blocks spam from the corporate network and filters inappropriate content from e-mail. The agreement takes advantage of Mail.com's partnership with Ford Motor Company, which allows all of Ford's controlled affiliates to utilize Mail.com's advanced e-mail solutions.
    "At Mazda we know the importance of uncompromising quality and outstanding value," said Vashdev Vangani, Department Manager at Mazda North American Operations. "Mail.com shares these same principles and they are an important partner in our mission to create new value, and excite and delight our customers through the best automotive products and services."
    "As a Global Fortune 500 corporation, Mazda can't be bothered with inappropriate content, slowed down by constant spam or stopped cold by computer viruses," said Brad Schrader, president of Mail.com Business Messaging Services. "We're proud to be offering this world automotive leader our cutting-edge e-mail solutions, and look forward to enriching our relationship with Mazda and other Ford brands."
    An Internet-based, platform-independent e-mail firewall, the MailWatch(R) protection service gives organizations the ability to establish and enforce policies controlling the use of the corporate e-mail system. It acts as a first line of defense ensuring infected e-mails do not reach their intended destinations, without the need for client-side software or hardware. Completely transparent to the user, the service scans inbound and outgoing messages and eliminates the threat of rogue viruses while they are still on the Internet, preventing suspect e-mails from ever reaching or leaving the corporate network. Its ease of use, combined with advanced virus protection, filtering capabilities, cost efficiency and scalability, makes the enhanced MailWatch(R) protection solution a premier choice for e-mail network protection and control.

    About Mazda North American Operations

    Mazda North American Operations is responsible for the sales and marketing , customer parts and service support of Mazda vehicles in the United States. Headquartered in Irvine, Calif., MNAO has over 750 dealerships nationwide.

    About Mail.com Business Messaging Services

    Mail.com Business Messaging Services is a leading global provider of outsourced messaging solutions for businesses. Our solution set includes hosted Microsoft Exchange, Novell GroupWise and Web/POP3-based e-mail and collaboration services; hosted e-mail firewall services such as virus scanning, spam blocking and content filtering; and a full range of Web-based, desktop and production Internet Fax solutions. Used by 9,000 corporations worldwide, Mail.com is the Company more enterprises turn to for outsourced messaging solutions.

    About Mail.Com

    Mail.com Inc. is a one-stop resource for Internet messaging services, providing reliable feature-rich e-mail and Internet fax services to businesses, ISPs, Web sites and direct to consumers through its flagship Web site: http://www.mail.com. Mail.com has a technology infrastructure of IP network facilities in 20 key countries and currently serves more than 18 million seats and 9,000 corporate customers worldwide. Information about Mail.com is available at http://www.corp. mail.com.

    This news release may contain statements of a forward-looking nature relating to the future events or the future financial results of Mail.com. Investors are cautioned that such statements are only predictions and that actual events or results may differ materially. In evaluating such statements, investors should specifically consider the various factors which could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated from such forward-looking statements, including the matters set forth in Mail.com's reports and documents filed from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission.