SAN CARLOS, Calif. – February 4, 2009 – Mark Logic Corporation, a leading provider of infrastructure software for information applications, today announced the availability of a new version of MarkMail, a free service for searching mailing list archives. Powered by MarkLogic Server, MarkMail 2.0 introduces several new capabilities for enhanced user customization, personalization, and notification. The new version enables users to register for personalized views of search results, secure access to private mailing list archives, and the ability to create Really Simple Syndication (RSS) feeds in order to be alerted to new content sources.

New Features of MarkMail 2.0

Site Registration and Login – MarkMail 2.0 allows users to utilize a customizable search experience via secure site registration. Once registered, users are provided with an individual username and password for full access to the new MarkMail 2.0 capabilities.

Personalized Display Settings – the newest version of MarkMail introduces a variety of modified display settings that empower users to better navigate through search results, including message date and time display. These settings make it simpler to identify when messages were posted to determine their timeliness to a given thread.

Creation of User-Defined “Named Sets” – MarkMail 2.0 allows users to define a group of messages interrelated by topic, date range, sender, or recipient. For example, a user could create a set containing “all messages relating to Java prior to 2005 sent by John Smith.” With traditional search engines, these messages would be scattered across a dozen arbitrary lists, making it very difficult for users to reference this one result set. With MarkMail 2.0, the ability to create “named sets” brings these messages together under a user-defined name. Users also have the ability to perform intra-set searches and share “named sets” with other users in the MarkMail community by distinguishing these queries as “public.”

Personalized RSS Feeds – the latest version of MarkMail provides a platform for users to establish RSS feeds to actively track various topics of interest.  As new relevant messages are archived by MarkMail, users are automatically alerted that new information has become available.

Multi-Tenant Privacy – MarkMail 2.0 includes an infrastructure built for multi-tenant privacy. Once authorized by the appropriate MarkMail users, registered visitors can now login and gain access to private list archives and view messages not available to the general public. This feature is particularly useful because it allows different workgroups within an organization to view exclusive archives without making them available to non-authorized users.

MarkMail was launched in November 2007 with four million messages from the Apache Software Foundation. Since the site’s unveiling, MarkMail has garnered rave reviews from both the community and industry watchers, and continues to add content relevant to a wide breadth of software developers. Today, MarkMail hosts more than 36 million messages across 6,860 mailing lists, including umbrella communities such as Apache, Codehaus, Mozilla, and the World Wide Web Consortium, technology-specific communities such as Eclipse, GNOME, KDE, MySQL, NetcoolUsers, Perl, Python and Xen, and a broad spectrum of other projects.

“MarkMail 2.0 moves the site from a read-only model, where everyone sees the same things, to a read-write model where each person can log in and customize their own view. Users can now configure their view preferences and create custom sets to track just the messages that matter to them. They can also share those sets with others who have similar interests and host private lists that aren’t visible outside a secured group,” said Jason Hunter, principal technologist for MarkMail, Mark Logic Corporation.  “These new features make it even easier and faster to search and discover messages against mailing list archives.”

If you are interested in learning more about how MarkMail can help your business, please contact Traci Ruble at traci.ruble@marklogic.com.

About MarkMail

The free MarkMail service provides sophisticated search functionality with a powerful faceted navigation interface. Combined with real-time analytics, the system delivers a new, state-of-the-art experience for interacting with large-scale message archives, such as those used by open source projects. MarkMail's powerful functionality and fluid user experience were built utilizing the unique capabilities of MarkLogic Server for handling semi-structured content. With MarkMail, users can seamlessly query across the structured and unstructured parts of email, including attachments, unlocking the value trapped inside millions of emails. By observing structure in the seemingly free-form content of the message body and automatically weighting query terms appropriately, MarkMail delivers results far superior to simple full-text search. In addition, MarkMail presents analytic information based on header information and other message metadata, enabling user drill down and query refinement. The results are a single interactive experience that lets users rapidly focus in on the answers they are seeking. For more information, visit http://markmail.org or visit the MarkMail blog at http://markmail.blogspot.com.

About Mark Logic Corporation

Mark Logic Corporation is a leading provider of information infrastructure software, serving industries including media, government, financial services, healthcare, and others. The company's flagship product, MarkLogic Server, is used by customers to enable a wide variety of information applications including custom publishing, search-based applications, content analytics, unified information access, metadata catalogs, and threat intelligence systems. MarkLogic Server is based on patented innovations and provides state-of-the-art features including location awareness, real-time search, and a shared-nothing cluster architecture that supports high performance against petabyte-scale databases. Mark Logic is headquartered in San Carlos, California with field offices in New York, Washington, London, Boston, Austin, and Frankfurt. The company is privately held with investors Sequoia Capital and Tenaya Capital. For more information, to download a trial version, or to read the award-winning Kellblog, written by Mark Logic CEO Dave Kellogg, go to www.marklogic.com.