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Obtaining Exim

Source Distributions

The primary source distribution is from the main exim.org site. See https://downloads.exim.org/exim4/ for the source packages, which are always accompanied by detached OpenPGP (aka "PGP", "GPG") Signatures.

All releases are PGP-signed by an OpenPGP key with a uid in the @exim.org domain. All valid keys can be retrieved via WKD from exim.org: gpg --auto-key-locate clear,nodefault,wkd --locate-keys PERSON@exim.org
or from the Maintainers Keyring

Once you've downloaded the source code, see InstallingExim for help on building and installing Exim.

SCM Access

There are Git repositories.

Latest Version

From 2022-05-25, the latest version of Exim is 4.96.

The popular exiscan-acl patch code has been incorporated into Exim from version 4.50 onwards. The distributors' patch for dynamically loadable lookups has been incorporated into Exim from version 4.74 onwards.

What's new and change logs

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

SuSE/Novell SUSE Distributions

Binary packages (unsupported by Novell/SuSE) can be found here.

Debian GNU/Linux

Debian GNU/Linux ships packages for Exim 4 (called exim4).

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 https://salsa.debian.org/exim-team/exim4/tree/master/debian.

There is a dedicated mailing list for exim on Debian. You can subscribe via https://alioth-lists.debian.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exim4-users

stable

Exim4 (version 4.92) is the default MTA for the current stable release of Debian GNU/Linux, Version 10.x, codenamed "buster".

To install the backported version, consult the Debian documentation about integrating 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 frequently 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

Arch Linux

pacman -S exim

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/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 https://www.exim.org/