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Q5013
Question
What does “Exim” stand for?
Answer
Originally, it was “EXperimental Internet Mailer”, which was the best I could come up with when I was starting out. At that point it was experimental - I wanted to see if the ideas I had for extending Smail's approach actually worked. Then somebody discovered about it and wanted to start using it, and told other people about it...
FAQ / Miscellaneous / Q5013