X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/blobdiff_plain/4050a04413dda769b60118e3bbb518639be6828a..e1eccd45658e98553dd17fe494176e363aac295a:/src/README diff --git a/src/README b/src/README index 850a35460..768eabbe8 100644 --- a/src/README +++ b/src/README @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/src/README,v 1.3 2005/08/30 10:07:58 ph10 Exp $ - THE EXIM MAIL TRANSFER AGENT VERSION 4 -------------------------------------- -Copyright (c) 1995 - 2005 University of Cambridge. +Copyright (c) 1995 - 2018 University of Cambridge. +SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later See the file NOTICE for conditions of use and distribution. There is a book about Exim by Philip Hazel called "The Exim SMTP Mail Server", @@ -11,12 +10,12 @@ published by UIT Cambridge in May 2003. This is the official guide for Exim 4. The current edition covers release 4.10 and a few later extensions. The O'Reilly book about Exim ("Exim The Mail Transfer Agent" by Philip Hazel) -covers Exim 3, which is now deprecated. Exim 4 has a large number of changes +covers Exim 3, which is now obsolete. Exim 4 has a large number of changes from Exim 3, though the basic structure and philosophy remains the same. The older book may be helpful for the background, but a lot of the detail has changed, so it is likely to be confusing to newcomers. -There is a web site at http://www.exim.org; this contains details of the +There is a website at https://www.exim.org; this contains details of the mailing list exim-users@exim.org. A copy of the Exim FAQ should be available from the same source that you used @@ -49,7 +48,7 @@ Please see the documentation files for full instructions on how to build, install, and run Exim. For straightforward installations on operating systems to which Exim has already been ported, the building process is as follows: -. Ensure that the top-level Exim directory (e.g. exim-4.40) is the current +. Ensure that the top-level Exim directory (e.g. exim-4.80) is the current directory (containing the files and directories listed above). . Edit the file called src/EDITME and put the result in a new file called @@ -152,6 +151,7 @@ system and architecture types respectively, the files used are: Local/Makefile- Local/Makefile- Local/Makefile-- + Local/Makefile- OS/Makefile-Base Of the Local/* files, only Local/Makefile is required to exist; the rest are @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ also need to add a new alias definition: "alias utf8 utf-8". 2. For some strange reason make will fail at building "exim_dbmbuild" when called the first time. However simply calling make a second time will solve - the problem. Alternatively, run "make makfile" and then "make". + the problem. Alternatively, run "make makefile" and then "make". ******* IMPORTANT FOR ULTRIX USERS *******