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Exim Packages for Debian

Exim is the MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) installed by default on new debian installations. On this web page, the Debian exim maintainers would like to deliver information important for users and developers.

The packages are named exim4 for historical reasons.

There are lots of excellent documentation for exim. The first file to read under debian is README.Debian (linked below) Then one ought to read the specification file; /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt

Please note that the debian configuration is different from the default exim configuration found on other systems. This is why it is imperative that one reads the debian documentation when setting up exim.

User Information

• The file "README.Debian" distributed with exim4 has a lot of useful information. Go read it. It can be found on your system in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz. This version is guaranteed to fit your installation.

• 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 moved to the Debconf templates in due time.

• User-Level Discussion Mailing List. Please note that you're going to be ignored if you ask questions that are clearly answered in the docs. This especially goes for the information given in README.Debian as mentioned above.

• There is also the IRC channel #exim on the libera.chat IRC network. When you come there, please say that you're a Debian user and read whatever is mentioned in the channel topic.

• A FAQ list

• Do you really need exim? Find a MTA Comparision here.

Package Hints

• To repeat the debconf configuration, use dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config.

Developer Information

• Alioth Project Home Page

• Development Mailing List

• BTS

• BTS with Usertags. The exim4 package maintainers make extensive use of BTS usertags. The link to the BTS gives a suggested view to the BTS page with a user categorization. People more acquainted with BTS user categories are invited to put their suggestions for a BTS query here.

• TODO Tracker

• PTS

• Latest Debconf .po files

• Upstream Web Site

Developer's Discussion

• Discussion and attempt of a Definition to handle /etc/mailname

Current information

• The documentation we deliver seems to be overwhelming for the novice user. We'd appreciate patches simplifying the docs, and/or adding information that is missing.
• At the moment, exim4-config-simple and exim4-config-medium are outdated. We appreciate patches that apply against current svn.

Subversion Repository

The Debian Exim 4 packages are developed in Subversion.

• Web Interface

  • http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/

  • http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim/

  • http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk

• Cut&Paste Shortcuts for checkout

  • svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk
  • svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/eximdoc4/trunk
  • svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/exim4-config-simple/trunk
  • svn co svn://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/exim4-config-medium/trunk

  • svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/exim/trunk

  • svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/eximdoc4/trunk

  • svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/exim4-config-simple/trunk

  • svn co svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-exim4/exim4-config-medium/trunk

For Tags and Branches, replace trunk with tags or branches. Especially for exim4, the tags directory is huge!

The svn repository only holds the debian/ subdir of the source package. svn-buildpackage and 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 Debian PTS. The svn repository for exim4 is appropriately set up.

See also

*Exim

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