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The Exim Home Page

@@ -15,59 +15,63 @@ 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.

+ + This is a volunteer run website with no connection to The + University of Cambridge or any other institution. + +

+ +

Current Versions

+ The current version of Exim is 4.42. See the Download page to get a copy. + There were a number of issues with earlier 4.3x versions + so their use is discouraged. Security fixes in this release + mean that all previous versions should be obsoleted in favour of + 4.34 or 4.41. Users of 4.40 should be aware that there is an + issue which may cause the exim daemon to die - this is fixed in + 4.41. +

+ +

RPM builds of exim for many versions of Red Hat and Fedora + distributions are available at ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/rpms-for-exim/

+ +

Exim 3 and previous versions are now considered obsolete. Exim 3 + is not being developed any further, nor is it being actively + maintained, though if a really serious bug were found, it would be + looked at.

+ +

The old system filter has been deleted from the site - it is + not appropriate for current mail configurations. If you are still + using it please discontinue immediately - it creates severe + collateral spam issues.

+ +

Mailman

+ +

The Exim/Mailman HOWTO for + Mailman 2.1 with Exim 4 has been rewritten.

+ +

Exim Books

+ +

The new Exim 4 + book is available. See the book website for + further information.

New Things

- 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. -
- 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. Version 0.13 released on 22 May. -

The O'Reilly Exim 3 + book is still available.

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.

Nigel Metheringham