Symantec Corp. today announced Symantec Mail Security Enterprise Edition, a unique, comprehensive mail security solution for SMTP gateway and groupware tiers, scheduled to be released in November. Symantec Mail Security Enterprise Edition is an important part of Symantec's Email Security and Availability solution strategy, which ensures the integrity of email systems and information. The new bundle will make it easier to implement market-leading email security technologies to significantly reduce the volume of spam and threats to the network posed by email-based threats, and to control the flow of unauthorized or inappropriate content in email both internally and externally.

Email security appliance vendor CipherTrust is running trials on the BlackBerry service from Canada's Research In Motion (RIM) with a view to offering anti-virus and anti-spam filtering for push email.

Goodmail Systems, yesterday announced plans to deploy its Goodmail CertifiedEmail service with America Online and Yahoo!.