Obtaining Exim
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Source Distributions
The primary source distribution is from the main exim.org site. See ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/ for the source packages, which are always accompanied by detached GPG Signatures.
You can find a list of all the current www mirror sites, and the ftp mirror sites and their status
There are a number of EximMirrorSites which also carry source packages. Please ensure that the packages are signed and are for the current version.
Once you've downloaded the source code, see InstallingExim for help on building and installing Exim.
SCM Access
There are CVS and Git repositories.
Latest Version
From 2009-11-24, the latest version of Exim is 4.71 (or possibly later as this page tends to be missed when updating)
The popular exiscan-acl patch code has been incorporated into Exim from version 4.50 onwards.
There's a ChangeLog, where you can also find documentation for new and changed features.
Binary Packages
Binary packages are all built by third parties, and not the EximDevelopers. Packaging issues should be reported to the packagers. In general binary packages include the exiscan extensions, however the build configuration is a decision made by the packager.
Red Hat / Fedora Linux Distributions
For Fedora, exim packages are distributed as follows:
- Fedora Core 3 (now EOL): as part of the base OS
Fedora Core 4+: as part of the Fedora Extras repository, maintained by DavidWoodhouse
Earlier releases were also built for FC2 and old RHL releases.
For Red Hat Enterprise, Exim packages are distributed as follows:
- RHEL4: Exim 4.43 is available
In general, due to the similarities between Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise, the latest Exim packages from Fedora Extras can usually be rebuilt fairly easily (i.e. with minimal or no modifications) on modern versions of Red Hat Enterprise (i.e. RHEL3, RHEL4) and variants such as CentOS, White Box Enterprise Linux etc.
Other sources
Some older packages are also built for FC1 and several RHL varients by TimJackson - those RPMs can be found here but are not currently being maintained.
The ATrpms RPM repository carries current Exim rpms for many Red Hat and Fedora distributions.
SuSE/Novell SUSE Distributions
Binary packages (unsupported by Novell/SuSE) can be found here.
Debian GNU/Linux
Debian GNU/Linux ships packages for Exim 3 (called exim), and Exim 4 (called exim4). However, using Exim 3 for new installs is deprecated.
There are two variations: exim4-daemon-light, or exim4-daemon-heavy which differ in the compiled-in feature set.
Information about the Exim 4 Package, including update hints, can be found in /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html, or on the Web in http://pkg-exim4.alioth.debian.org/README/README.Debian.etch.html.
There is a dedicated mailing list for exim on Debian. You can subscribe via http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users
stable
Exim4 (version 4.63) is the default MTA for the current stable release of Debian GNU/Linux, Version 4.0, codenamed "etch".
Backports of Exim4 for the old stable release, sarge, are available.
To install the backported version, add the following line to your apt sources.list:
deb http://www.backports.org/debian sarge-backports main
You can read more information about installing backports.
testing/unstable
Exim4 is the default MTA for Debian GNU/Linux, testing and unstable. Just apt the packages from the repository.
experimental
The very latest Release of Exim4 is freqently available from the experimental distribution.
Gentoo
emerge exim
See http://gentoo-wiki.com/Mail_Server_based_on_Exim_and_Courier-imap
FreeBSD
Exim4 is in the FreeBSD ports tree:
# cd /usr/ports/mail/exim # make install clean
PLD GNU/Linux
Just install with poldek -i exim
Mandrakelinux
You can use urpmi to install it ( for mandrake 10.2 and higher ) urpmi exim
Documentation
Documentation source packages are available from the same place as the source distributions. The main documentation is also available as browsable HTML on http://www.exim.org/