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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 general. There is a great deal
19 of flexibility in the way mail can be routed, and there are
20 extensive facilities for checking incoming mail. Exim can be
21 installed in place of sendmail, although the configuration of exim
22 is quite different to that of sendmail.</p>
25 <center>The <a href="http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/">Exim Wiki</a> is now online</center>
28 <h2>First International Exim Conference and Tutorial</h2> <p>There
29 will be an Exim Conference on 23 and 24 February 2005 in
31 href="http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-conference/">Further details are
34 <h2>Current Versions</h2>
36 The current version of Exim is <b>4.43</b>. See the <a
37 href="mirrors.html"><b>Download</b></a> page to get a copy.
38 There were a number of issues with earlier <b>4.3x</b> versions
39 so their use is discouraged. Security fixes in this release
40 mean that all previous versions should be obsoleted in favour of
41 4.34 or 4.41. Users of 4.40 should be aware that there is an
42 issue which may cause the exim daemon to die - this is fixed in
46 <p>Exim 3 and previous versions are now considered obsolete. Exim 3
47 is not being developed any further, nor is it being actively
48 maintained, though if a really serious bug were found, it would be
51 <p>The old system filter has been deleted from the site - it is
52 not appropriate for current mail configurations. If you are still
53 using it please discontinue immediately - it creates severe
54 collateral spam issues.</p>
58 <p>The <a href="howto/mailman21.html">Exim/Mailman HOWTO</a> for
59 Mailman 2.1 with Exim 4 has been rewritten.</p>
63 <p>The new <a href="http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book/"> Exim 4
64 book</a> is available. See the <a
65 href="http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book/">book website</a> for
66 further information.</p>
68 <p>The O'Reilly <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/">Exim 3
69 book</a> is still available.</p>
72 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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