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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>
26 <i>This is a volunteer run website with no connection to The
27 University of Cambridge or any other institution.</i>
31 <h2>Current Versions</h2>
33 The current version of Exim is <b>4.41</b>. See the <a
34 href="mirrors.html"><b>Download</b></a> page to get a copy.
35 There were a number of issues with earlier <b>4.3x</b> versions
36 so their use is discouraged. Security fixes in this release
37 mean that all previous versions should be obsoleted in favour of
38 4.34 or 4.41. Users of 4.40 should be aware that there is an
39 issue which may cause the exim daemon to die - this is fixed in
43 <p>RPM builds of exim for many versions of Red Hat and Fedora
44 distributions are available at <a
45 href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/rpms-for-exim/"><tt>ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/rpms-for-exim/</tt></a></p>
47 <p>Exim 3 and previous versions are now considered obsolete. Exim 3
48 is not being developed any further, nor is it being actively
49 maintained, though if a really serious bug were found, it would be
52 <p>The old system filter has been deleted from the site - it is
53 not appropriate for current mail configurations. If you are still
54 using it please discontinue immediately - it creates severe
55 collateral spam issues.</p>
59 <p>The <a href="howto/mailman21.html">Exim/Mailman HOWTO</a> for
60 Mailman 2.1 with Exim 4 has been rewritten.</p>
64 <p>The new <a href="http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book/"> Exim 4
65 book</a> is available. See the <a
66 href="http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book/">book website</a> for
67 further information.</p>
69 <p>The O'Reilly <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/">Exim 3
70 book</a> is still available.</p>
73 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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