Hi, I noticed Marc Perkel's post a few weeks ago about the ongoing life of Exim and he was swiftly diverted to exim-dev. There isn't much on there about what is happening in the future and what the plans are etc. I also note that exim-future is under-nourished with messages.
A lot of us out here are just ordinary sysadmins trying to keep things up and running and getting by on a day to day basis and things like Exim are core to what we do. Most of these things (including Exim) are stable, well written and supported - and still maintained and undergoing development. The main driving force behind Exim was Phil, Phil has retired and to me as an end user has left a bit of a void. There doesn't appear to be any single co-ordinator or champion for Exim anymore and it looks as if everything has stopped. There isn't a lot of Exim 5 going on, 4.68 has been out for a long time now, if Phil was still running it I feel sure there would have been a 4.69 at least looking at his typical release cycles. There was a little flurry of activity earlier in the year at Phil's retirement as to the future but since then nothing. I'm in the process of building a new server and building and configuring Exim on it, it will be 4.68, what is bothering me is whether this is a good decision - I have been running Exim for almost 15 years so am familiar with it, I have also run Sendmail and am familiar with that too (I prefer Exim BTW). Is it time to consider alternatives to Exim as my MTA of choice ? Every sysadmin that uses Exim must be asking themselves this - this list and the other lists are not answering the future questions and we as a community need to be getting our heads out of the sand and making decisions about what we are going to do. I would love to get into code bashing and development - but don't have the spare time, we don't have a replacement for Phil and I can't see anybody backing Exim financially to keep it going so what really is going to happen ? Who else is considering alternatives and what are you looking at ? Regards, David exim/2007-12-05.tx exim-users +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Restall, Computer Nerd, Cyclist, Radio Amateur G4FCU, Bodger | | Mob +44 (0) 7973 831245 Skype: dave.restall Radio: G4FCU | | email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web : Not Ready Yet :-( | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Bare feet magnetize sharp metal objects so they point upward from the | | floor -- especially in the dark. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
