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Exim4 is the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) installed by default on new debian installations. On this web page, the Debian exim4 maintainers would like to deliver information which might be important for the user. Other exim4 users hope to contribute to the documentation as well from a user's perspective. Exim4 is the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) installed by default on new debian installations. On this web page, the Debian exim4 maintainers would like to deliver information which might be important for the user.

Exim v4 Packages for Debian

Exim4 is the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) installed by default on new debian installations. 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.

To learn more about exim4 please read the available documentation. Perhaps begin with README.Debian (table of contents below.) Then read the main documentation file; /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt

User Information

The file "README.Debian" distributed with exim4 has a lot of useful information. Here is its Table of Contents:

  • 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

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  • At the moment, exim4-config-simple and exim4-config-medium are outdated.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.