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12 <h1>The Exim Home Page</h1>
14 <p>Exim is a message transfer agent (<b>MTA</b>) developed at the
15 University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the
16 Internet. It is freely available under the terms of the <b>GNU
17 General Public Licence</b>. In style it is similar to <b>Smail
18 3</b>, but its facilities are more extensive, and in particular it
19 has some defences against mail bombs and unsolicited junk mail in
20 the form of options for refusing messages from particular hosts,
21 networks, or senders. It can be installed in place of sendmail,
22 although the configuration of exim is quite different to that of
25 <p>An expanded <a href="intro.html">introduction is available</a>.</p>
30 Exim Version 3.34 is available - see the <a
31 href="mirrors.html">availability</a> pages to get hold of a
32 copy. Documentation has been patially updated to match.
33 Version 3.34 fixes an exploitable (in rare configurations)
34 security bug - upgrading is strongly recommended.
37 Printed copies of the <a href="http://www.bsdmall.com/emexmailtran.html">
38 Exim 3 documentation</a> are available from BSDMall as part of Prime
39 Freeware's <a href="http://ptf.com/dossier/">Dossier</a>
40 project</a> (NB this is a printed form of
41 documents bundled in electronic form with Exim).
44 The information on the <a href="maillist.html">Mailing
45 Lists</a> also now contains a search form.
48 A <b>Generic Windows Executable Content</b> filter is
49 available at <a href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
50 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</a> or <A
51 HREF="system_filter.exim">here</A>. This is an exim system
52 filter which attempts to detect executables including the
53 types responsible for the Windows/Outlook mail worms, and also
54 the recent bugs with header length checking (see this <A
55 HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D61">
56 BugTraq article</A>). It is not infallible, but many sites
57 may find it useful. The file contains installation
58 instructions. Version 0.13 released on 22 May.
63 <p>The <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/">definitive exim book</a>,
64 written by Philip Hazel, is now available. Orders can
65 be placed through a number of the on-line retailers.</p>
66 <p><a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/"><img border=0 src="images/exim.s.gif"></a>
69 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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