exim/exim-website

Website for Exim MTA

Exim Development Repository

This is the Exim (Mail Transport Agent) Development Repository. Please read the following information if you wish to use or contribute to the Exim development process - this is to prevent your or our time being unnecessarily wasted.

If you just want to use, build or get information on Exim then have a look at the pointers further down this file at "General Exim Information".

General Development Information

The general Exim development process and resources are documented in the wiki page at http://wiki.exim.org/EximDevelopment - although the wiki is likely to be moved and rehashed in the near future.

The sections below this duplicate much of the information form the wiki document.

Development Repositories

Exim development is kept within a git (https://git-scm.com/) repository. The master repository is at git://git.exim.org/exim.git with a web interface giving change and source visibility at https://git.exim.org/exim.git

There is a secondary repository on github at https://github.com/Exim/exim managed by the Exim Organisation - however this may currently fall out of synchronisation with the main one.

Bug Tracking

Currently this is all done using Bugzilla at https://bugs.exim.org/ - please do not use github issue tracking.

Mailing List

Development issues are normally discussed on the exim-dev mailing list - see https://www.exim.org/maillist.html

Exim Release Process

Some documentation on the release process can be found at http://wiki.exim.org/EximRelease.

General Exim Information

The best place to get general information is on the website at https://www.exim.org/.

You can find Download locations https://www.exim.org/mirrors.html, Mailing list info https://www.exim.org/maillist.html and Full Documentation https://www.exim.org/docs.html on that website.

If you are using a Linux or other freely available Unix like operating system it is very likely that your system will have Exim packaged for it already. In this case it is probably prudent to use these packages unless you have specialised requirements.

In any case you can always ask on the Exim Users mailing list https://lists.exim.org/mailman3/postorius/lists/exim-users.lists.exim.org/ for further information.

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exim-website's Issues

book: The Exim SMTP mail server, by Philip Hazel, 1st April 2007 | Heavily outdated content

Hello. On the official site, the mention of the The Exim SMTP mail server book, by Philip Hazel, published 1st April 2007, ISBN: 978095445297, sadly illustrates the promotion of a documentation containing an heavily outdated content. At the time of its publication it could have dealt at best with subjects covered in release v. 4.66 of Exim, 9th Jan 2007! That's something new reader focusing on an up-to-date documentation cannot miss. Regards.

Maintenance releases need to be advertised on the website

Instead of stating that the latest release is (currently) 4.93, it should say 4.93.0.4 and link to it.

Presumably there needs to be some way to do this without publishing a new version of the documentation.

Obsolete link

Hello. Here, again, among the indicators revealing a poorly active project, along with the mention of an heavily outdated source of documentation, whichi is illustrated by the book The Exim SMTP mail server, by Philip Hazel, 1st April 2007, the link for Smail 3 not only illustrates an insecure protocol (HTTP), but also once opened –at our own risks, leads to a page where no mention of Smail 3 is present neither Smail 3 is covered in the web site it is redirected to nor elsewhere on internet.