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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 The information on the <a href="maillist.html">Mailing
31 Lists</a> also now contains a search form.
34 A <b>Generic Windows Executable Content</b> filter is
35 available at <a href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
36 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</a> or <A
37 HREF="system_filter.exim">here</A>. This is an exim system
38 filter which attempts to detect executables including the
39 types responsible for the Windows/Outlook mail worms, and also
40 the recent bugs with header length checking (see this <A
41 HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D61">
42 BugTraq article</A>). It is not infallible, but many sites
43 may find it useful. The file contains installation
47 Exim Version 3.16 is available - see the <a
48 href="mirrors.html">availability</a> pages to get hold of a
54 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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