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<h1>The Exim Home Page</h1>
University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the
Internet. It is freely available under the terms of the <b>GNU
General Public Licence</b>. In style it is similar to <b>Smail
- 3</b>, but its facilities are more extensive, and in particular it
- has some defences against mail bombs and unsolicited junk mail in
- the form of options for refusing messages from particular hosts,
- networks, or senders. It can be installed in place of sendmail,
- although the configuration of exim is quite different to that of
- sendmail.</p>
+ 3</b>, but its facilities are more general. There is a great deal
+ of flexibility in the way mail can be routed, and there are
+ extensive facilities for checking incoming mail. Exim can be
+ installed in place of sendmail, although the configuration of exim
+ is quite different to that of sendmail.</p>
- <p>An expanded <a href="intro.html">introduction is available</a>.</p>
+ <p>An expanded, although outdated, <a
+ href="intro.html">introduction is available</a>.</p>
+ <hr>
+ <center>
+ <i>This is a volunteer run website with no connection to The
+ University of Cambridge or any other institution.</i>
+ </center>
+ <hr>
<h2>New Things</h2>
<ul>
+ <li><i>Please note that this web site is updated asynchronously with
+ exim releases, and may sometimes trail versions by a few days or
+ even weeks</i></li>
<li>
- Exim Version 3.34 is available - see the <a
- href="mirrors.html">availability</a> pages to get hold of a
- copy. Documentation has been patially updated to match.
- Version 3.34 fixes an exploitable (in rare configurations)
- security bug - upgrading is strongly recommended.
- </li>
- <li>
- Printed copies of the <a href"http://www.bsdmall.com/emexmailtran.html">
- Exim 3 documentation</a> are available from BSDMall as part of Prime
- Freeware's <a href-"http://ptf.com/dossier/">Dossier</a>
- project</a> (NB this is a printed form of
- documents bundled in electronic form with Exim).
- </li>
- <li>
- The information on the <a href="maillist.html">Mailing
- Lists</a> also now contains a search form.
+ Current Exim versions are <b>3.36</b> and <b>4.12</b>, both of
+ which are bug fix releases over the previous versions.
</li>
<li>
A <b>Generic Windows Executable Content</b> filter is
available at <a href="ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/">
ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/</a> or <A
HREF="system_filter.exim">here</A>. This is an exim system
- filter which attempts to detect executables including the
- types responsible for the Windows/Outlook mail worms, and also
- the recent bugs with header length checking (see this <A
- HREF="http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D61">
- BugTraq article</A>). It is not infallible, but many sites
- may find it useful. The file contains installation
- instructions. Version 0.13 released on 22 May.
- </li>
+ filter which attempts to detect Windows executables, and block
+ the messages containing them. It has limitations - specifically
+ related to trying to parse MIME with regular expressions,
+ but many people are using it as a cheap means of protection.
+ <b>NB this is no longer being maintained.</b>
+ </li>
</ul>
+ <h2>OSDir.com site</h2>
+ <p>There is an <a href="http://osdir.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Downloads&file=index&req=viewdownloaddetails&lid=140&ttitle=Exim">
+ entry for exim</a> on O'Reilly's <a
+ hred="http://OSDir.com">OSDir.com</a> site. At the time of
+ writing this has very little content, but people may wish to
+ correct that...</p>
+
<h2>Exim Book</h2>
- <p>The <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/">definitive exim book</a>,
- written by Philip Hazel, is now available. Orders can
- be placed through a number of the on-line retailers.</p>
+ <p>The <a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/">definitive exim version 3 book</a>,
+ written by Philip Hazel, is still available. Orders can
+ be placed through a number of the on-line retailers. A new book
+ covering exim version 4 (to be published by a different
+ publisher) is currently in preparation.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exim/"><img border=0 src="images/exim.s.gif"></a>
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<address><a href="mailto:Postmaster@exim.org">Nigel Metheringham</a></address>
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