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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>
24 <p>An expanded, although outdated, <a
25 href="intro.html">introduction is available</a>.</p>
29 <i>This is a volunteer run website with no connection to The
30 University of Cambridge or any other institution.</i>
35 <li><i>Please note that this web site is updated asynchronously with
36 exim releases, and may sometimes trail versions by a few days or
39 Current Exim versions are <b>3.36</b> and <b>4.12</b>, both of
40 which are bug fix releases over the previous versions.
43 A <b>Generic Windows Executable Content</b> filter is
44 available at <a href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
45 ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</a> or <A
46 HREF="system_filter.exim">here</A>. This is an exim system
47 filter which attempts to detect Windows executables, and block
48 the messages containing them. It has limitations - specifically
49 related to trying to parse MIME with regular expressions,
50 but many people are using it as a cheap means of protection.
51 <b>NB this is no longer being maintained.</b>
55 <h2>OSDir.com site</h2>
56 <p>There is an <a href="http://osdir.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownloaddetails&lid=140&ttitle=Exim">
57 entry for exim</a> on O'Reilly's <a
58 hred="http://OSDir.com">OSDir.com</a> site. At the time of
59 writing this has very little content, but people may wish to
63 <p>The <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/">definitive exim version 3 book</a>,
64 written by Philip Hazel, is still available. Orders can
65 be placed through a number of the on-line retailers. A new book
66 covering exim version 4 (to be published by a different
67 publisher) is currently in preparation.</p>
68 <p><a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/"><img border=0 src="images/exim.s.gif"></a>
71 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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