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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>
29 <li><i>Please note that this web site is updated asynchronously with
30 exim releases, and may sometimes trail versions by a few days or
33 Current Exim versions are <b>3.36</b> and <b>4.05</b>, both of
34 which are bug fix releases over the previous versions.
39 <p>The <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/">definitive exim book</a>,
40 written by Philip Hazel, is now available. Orders can
41 be placed through a number of the on-line retailers.</p>
42 <p><a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/"><img border=0 src="images/exim.s.gif"></a>
45 <address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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