ActiveState has released PerlMx version 1.0, a mail filter engine for sendmail. sendmail now allows scripting of all stages of an e-mail transaction, and PerlMx allows those scripts to be written in Perl. PerlMx requires perl 5.6.0 and sendmail 8.11.0 or sendmail Switch 2.0.6. It runs on Solaris 2.6 or higher for SPARC, and Red Hat Linux or higher for x86.