Brightmail
Brightmail was an email anti-spam software company founded in 1998 by Sunil Paul, best known for its network of "spam probe" honeypot email addresses that fed real-time anti-spam filtering rules to enterprise mail servers. Symantec acquired Brightmail in 2004 for roughly $370 million, and the technology shipped for years as Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam and later Symantec Mail Security; Symantec's enterprise security business was subsequently acquired by Broadcom in 2019. Brightmail today is a defunct brand with no independent developer program or public API surface — www.brightmail.com redirects to broadcom.com and the brightmail.com apex domain no longer resolves. This profile is retained for historical/network completeness rather than active API enrichment.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
Brightmail is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Brightmail scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Resources
Every other property we hold for Brightmail — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
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The organization behind the API
Brightmail is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.
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