On 2006-06-27, Jon Bendtsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> By the way, Exim 3 has been obsolete and unsupported for years. > > i know, but it is in my debian stable? maybe it didnt get upgraded.
The current stable release has Exim 4.50 under the package name "exim4", whereas the "exim" package is Exim 3.36. http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/exim4 http://packages.debian.org/stable/mail/exim I think they used a different package name because Exim 4.x is not a drop-in replacement for a running, configured Exim 3.y server --- the exim.conf file structure is significantly different between versions 3 and 4 (and IMHO the version 4 file is easier to understand). I think there are some scripts available to translate the config file but I haven't tried them. Warning: the default Debian exim4 installation involves a great mass of separate files in /etc/exim4/conf.d/ which are concatenated by a script into the single file that Exim actually uses (/var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated, I think). Some people like this, and it allows other Debian packages that affect the MTA's behaviour to drop their extra files into the directory so they get automatically included. If you don't like that (I don't), just put your own file in /etc/exim4/exim4.conf and Debian Exim will use it instead of the autogenerated one (I think the presence of this file is picked up by /etc/init.d/exim4 or one of the files it refers to.) HTH. > And why change when it worked so far? Exim 3 is no longer supported or developed. I don't know that it has any security-related bugs, but it *could* have them and I doubt they would be fixed. -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
