Congratulations on your progress and the fine work you've done.
Philip Hazel wrote:
> Here it is, folks, the first alpha release of Exim 4:
>
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-3.951.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-3.951.tar.bz2
>
> As you can see, it calls itself "Exim 3.951". I have also put copies of
> the documentation in non-ASCII formats (PostScript, PDF, Texinfo and HTML)
> in the same ftp directory:
>
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-html-3.951.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-pdf-3.951.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-postscript-3.951.tar.gz
> ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Testing/exim-texinfo-3.951.tar.gz
>
> and also in the .bz2 forms. The manual is a few pages shorter than the
> previous edition. I think this indicates that I have succeeded in making
> some things simpler.
>
> This version of Exim has been running for over a week on one of our
> systems, so it isn't entirely broken. However, there have been very,
> very many code changes since Exim 3.33. It is ALPHA software, so please
> treat it as such. It is certain that I have broken things over the last
> 10 months that I have been working on this. Please report any problems
> that you encounter. There are no doubt also errors and typos in the
> documentation. Please report them too.
>
> The underlying functionality of Exim 4 is not changed very much, but the
> top-level interface to it is very different to Exim 3. Directors and
> routers are merged, and input policy control is by Access Control Lists
> instead of a slew of separate options.
>
> You will need to convert your run time configuration and understand a
> bit about the new ways of doing things. Then you'll need to run some
> tests. Don't expect to install this in 10 minutes. The place to start
> reading is the file called doc/Exim4.upgrade.
>
> Philip
>
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> Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
> ph10@??? Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
>
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