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4 <title>Basic Exim Home Page Stuff</title>
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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 An update to the system filter to protect broken MS mail
31 clients from the real world has been produced. This protects
32 against the bug described on <A HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D61">
33 BugTraq</A> where a long date string can subvert the client.
34 The filter can be found at <A HREF="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
35 <tt>ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</tt></a> or
36 <A HREF="system_filter.exim">here</A>. The file contains
37 installation instructions.
40 Exim Version 3.15 is available - see the <a
41 href="mirrors.html">availability</a> pages to get hold of a
45 A <b>Generic Windows Executable Content</b> filter is available
46 at <a href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
47 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</a> . This is an exim system
48 filter which attempts to detect executables including the
49 types responsible for the recent Windows/Outlook mail worms.
50 It is not infallible, but many sites may find it useful.
55 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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