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Debian 3.1 (stable, codename sarge) has exim4 4.50-8. '''Debian 3.1 (stable, codename sarge) has exim4 4.50-8.'''
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 * [http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=exim4 Packages for Woody]
 * [http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/ Packages for Sid and Sarge]		  * [http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/ Packages for Sid, Sarge and Etch]
 * [http://downhill.aus.cc/debian/dists/sarge/exim4/ Backported Packages for Sarge]
 * [http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=exim4 Packages for Woody] might be available, but are not built and supported any more. Use at your own risk, and please seriously think about upgrading to sarge.
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 * [wiki:Self:PkgExim4BugsClassification Bugs Classification Page]  * [wiki:Self:PkgExim4BugsClassification Bugs Classification Page] - this is currently outdated and might be moved to BTS user tags soon
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 * We are in dire need of help from somebody who is familiar with ["GnuTLS"]. There are numerous bugs concerning TLS behavior of the Exim daemon, and upstream seems to have lost its ["GnuTLS"] knowledge when the helper who delivered the ["GnuTLS"] code vanished.  * We are in dire need of help from somebody who is familiar with ["GnuTLS"]. There are numerous bugs concerning TLS behavior of the Exim daemon, and upstream seems to have lost their ["GnuTLS"] knowledge when the helper who delivered the ["GnuTLS"] code vanished.

Exim v4 Packages for Debian

Exim4 is the MTA which is installed by default on new installations. It thus gets a lot of exposure to users. On this web page, the Debian exim4 maintainers would like to deliver information which might be important for the user.

Debian 3.1 (stable, codename sarge) has exim4 4.50-8.

Please read the available documentation.

User Information

  • README.Debian has a lot of useful information. Here is its Table of Contents:
    • Introduction- Introduction
      • Packaging
      • Mailing list
      • Requirements
      • Feature Sets
      • Tweaking Configuration
    • Updating from exim 3
    • How does the configuration work?
    • Using a completely different configuration scheme
    • Misc Notes
    • Modifications done to the packages
    • FAQ
      • Packaging
      • Configuration Issues
      • Run-Time Challenges
      • Features

  • README.Debian can be found on your system in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz. The latest README.Debian (which might be inappropriate for the version of exim4 you are installing) can be found in the [http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk/debian/README.Debian?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 Subversion Repository].

  • NEWS.Debian (/usr/share/doc/exim4-(base||config||daemon-(light||heavy))/NEWS.Debian.gz) is another must-read which currently contains information that should be in the Debconf templates but didn't find its way there because of the string freeze.

  • [http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/e/exim4/ Packages for Sid, Sarge and Etch]

  • [http://downhill.aus.cc/debian/dists/sarge/exim4/ Backported Packages for Sarge]

  • [http://www.backports.org/package.php?search=exim4 Packages for Woody] might be available, but are not built and supported any more. Use at your own risk, and please seriously think about upgrading to sarge.

  • [http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users User-Level Discussion Mailing List ]

  • [wiki:?PkgExim4KnownBugsInSarge Known Bugs in the Packages for Debian Sarge]

Developer Information

Developer's Discussion

  • [wiki:EtcMailName Discussion and attempt of a Definition to handle /etc/mailname]

Current information

  • At the moment, exim4-config-simple and exim4-config-medium are outdated. We appreciate patches that apply against current svn.
  • We are in dire need of help from somebody who is familiar with ["GnuTLS"]. There are numerous bugs concerning TLS behavior of the Exim daemon, and upstream seems to have lost their ["GnuTLS"] knowledge when the helper who delivered the ["GnuTLS"] code vanished.

[http://packages.debian.org/subversion Subversion] Repository

Tags and Branches are at [http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/ pkg-exim4]([exim4 http:''/svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim/]||[http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/eximdoc4/ eximdoc4]||[http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim4-config-simple/ exim4-config-simple]||[http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim4-config-medium/ exim4-config-medium])/(tags||branches). Especially for [http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim/ exim4], the [http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim/tags tags] directory is huge!

The svn repository only holds the debian/ subdir of the source package. [http://packages.debian.org/svn-buildpackage svn-buildpackage] and [http://packages.debian.org/dpatch dpatch] can handle this case, allowing nearly transparent work with a much smaller repository.

You can subscribe to repository change notifications through the CVS feature in the [http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/ch-resources.en.html#s-pkg-tracking-system Debian PTS]. The svn repository for exim4 is appropriately set up.

Historic CVS Repository

The exim 4 packages were originally maintained on CVS but has migrated to Subversion these days. The CVS links are listed for reference and historic reasons only.