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The Exim Home Page
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University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the
Internet. It is freely available under the terms of the GNU
General Public Licence. In style it is similar to Smail
- 3, 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.
+ 3, 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.
- An expanded introduction is available.
+ An expanded, although outdated, introduction is available.
+
+
+ This is a volunteer run website with no connection to The
+ University of Cambridge or any other institution.
+
+
New Things
+ - Please note that this web site is updated asynchronously with
+ exim releases, and may sometimes trail versions by a few days or
+ even weeks
-
- Exim Version 4.00 is available - see the availability pages to get hold of a
- copy. This is a major new release with some major changes
- from version 3.x, as such it should be treated with care.
-
- -
- Exim
- course at Cambridge on 24-26 June, 2002.
-
- -
- Exim Version 3.34 is available - see the availability 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.
-
- -
- Printed copies of the
- Exim 3 documentation are available from BSDMall as part of Prime
- Freeware's Dossier
- project (NB this is a printed form of
- documents bundled in electronic form with Exim).
-
- -
- The information on the Mailing
- Lists also now contains a search form.
+ Current Exim versions are 3.36 and 4.12, both of
+ which are bug fix releases over the previous versions.
-
A Generic Windows Executable Content filter is
available at
ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/filter/ or here. 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
- BugTraq article). It is not infallible, but many sites
- may find it useful. The file contains installation
- instructions. NB this is no longer being maitained.
-
+ 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.
+ NB this is no longer being maintained.
+
+ OSDir.com site
+ There is an
+ entry for exim on O'Reilly's OSDir.com site. At the time of
+ writing this has very little content, but people may wish to
+ correct that...
+
Exim Book
- The definitive exim book,
- written by Philip Hazel, is now available. Orders can
- be placed through a number of the on-line retailers.
+ The definitive exim version 3 book,
+ 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.
Nigel Metheringham
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