-
+
- Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the
- University of Cambridge
+ Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) originally developed at the
+ 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 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
+ GNU General Public Licence
+ . In style it is similar to Smail 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.
-
-
- All versions of Exim previous to version are now obsolete and everyone is very strongly recommended to upgrade to a current release. The last 3.x release was 3.36. It is obsolete and should not be used.
+
All versions of Exim previous to version are now obsolete. The last 3.x release was 3.36. It is twenty years obsolete and should not be used.
- The current version is
-
- This is a security update. Please read CVE-2016-1531
- for more information.
+ The current version is .
+ If necessary, we publish maintenance releases. These releases are mainly intended for package maintainers.
+