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Tumbleweed’s #1 Rated Linux-based Anti-spam Appliance Now Available in Australian Market

Australia Channel Partner to Demo MailGate at CeBIT Australia 2004

Redwood City, CA – April 29, 2004 – Tumbleweed® Communications Corp. (Nasdaq:TMWD - News), a leading provider of secure Internet messaging software and appliances for enterprises and government agencies, today announced the availability of the Tumbleweed MailGate™ in Australia. The Linux-based anti-spam appliance is now available through Tumbleweed’s long-standing Australian channel partner, Information Gateways Pty Ltd.

As part of the Australia launch, Information Gateways will be showcasing the Tumbleweed MailGate at CeBIT Australia 2004, 4-6 May 2004 at Sydney Exhibition Centre in Sydney, Australia. Information Gateway will be exhibiting the Tumbleweed MailGate in the “USA Pavilion” area of the exhibition.

“We are pleased to announce the availability of the Tumbleweed MailGate in Australia. This not only underscores our commitment to opening new markets through Tumbleweed’s channel partner but also represents a key element of Tumbleweed’s growth strategy”, said Denis Brotzel, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Tumbleweed Communications. “Our relationship with key resellers such as Information Gateways will continue to allow us to meet the growing global demand for secure Internet messaging products.”

“The MailGate expands our portfolio of Tumbleweed secure Internet messaging technology to now include this award-winning Linux-based anti-spam appliance,” said Simon Maxwell, Managing Director at Information Gateways. “The MailGate, along with the comprehensive Tumbleweed Email Firewall software, offers the Australian marketplace a strong set of anti-spam capabilities.”

About the Tumbleweed MailGate
The Tumbleweed MailGate was rated #1 against major competitors in real-world testing by InfoWorld in February, 2004. (http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/02/13/07TCspam_1.html).
Tumbleweed’s award-winning Linux-based anti-spam appliance is based on its proprietary IBF technology. IBF technology uses Artificial Intelligence to determine the intent of information rather than relying on ineffective techniques such as blacklists, white lists, signatures, or rules. IBF acts like a human reader, examining each email to see if it meets the criteria for spam, commercial bulk email from valid advertisers, or legitimate messages. It then sends the legitimate email on to user mailboxes, along with any commercial email that a user wants to receive. Since IBF does not require constant updating or blacklist subscriptions, it returns high filtration and low false-positive rates. It also has an extremely low total cost of ownership (TCO). The MailGate installs in just 15 minutes on any network and immediately begins filtering email before it reaches the server. Since the MailGate prevents spam from hitting the email servers, this significantly improves server performance and bandwidth.

About Information Gateways:
Information Gateways was established in 1982 as a distributor for system software for mainframes and today have approximately 1,000 customers. Their products include system software for Windows Servers, as well as for Unix and Mainframes. Information Gateways provides technical support on all products along with professional services, including training, and installation. Based in Sydney, Information Gateways has customers and resellers throughout Australia and New Zealand, as well as a number of customers and resellers in Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Information Gateways’ clients include most of Australia's largest banks and financial institutions, the nation's major telephone companies, the very large retail chains, numerous federal and state and local government departments, and most of the large IT outsourcing companies. Information Gateways has been a Microsoft Certified Partner since 1996. For additional information about Information Gateways, go to www.ig.com.au or call (61) 2 9496 9496.

About Tumbleweed Communications:
Tumbleweed is a leading provider of secure Internet messaging software and appliances for enterprises and government agencies. By making Internet communications secure, reliable and automated, Tumbleweed's anti-spam email firewall, secure file transfer, secure email, and identity validation solutions help customers significantly reduce the cost of doing business. Tumbleweed products are used to communicate with millions of end-users and tens of thousands of corporations. Tumbleweed has more than 600 enterprise customers, including ABN Amro, Bank of America Securities, Catholic Healthcare West, JP Morgan Chase & Co., The Regence Group (Blue Cross/Blue Shield), St. Luke's Episcopal Healthcare System, the US Food and Drug Administration, and the US Navy and Marine Corps. Tumbleweed Communications was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, California. For additional information about Tumbleweed go to www.tumbleweed.com or call 650-216-2000.

SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT

Tumbleweed cautions that forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on current plans and expectations, and that a number of factors could cause the actual results to differ materially from the guidance given at this time. These factors are described in the Safe Harbor statement below.

Except for the historical information contained herein, the matters discussed in this press release may constitute forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected, particularly with respect to Tumbleweed’s success with respect to opening new markets and its growth strategy generally, as well as the growth in global demand for secure Internet messaging products. In some cases, forward-looking statements can be identified by terminology such as "may," "will," "should," "potential," "continue," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "estimates," and similar expressions. For further cautions about the risks of investing in Tumbleweed, we refer you to the documents Tumbleweed files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission, particularly Tumbleweed's Form 10-K filed March 15, 2004.

Tumbleweed assumes no obligation to update information contained in this press release, including for example its guidance regarding its future performance, which represents the Company's expectations only as of the date of this release and should not be viewed as a statement about the Company's expectations after such date. Although this release may remain available on the Company's website or elsewhere, its continued availability does not indicate that the Company is reaffirming or confirming any of the information contained herein.

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