Re: [Exim] Version 4.02 and "The Book"

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Autor: Oliver Egginger
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A: Owen Boyle
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Assumpte: Re: [Exim] Version 4.02 and "The Book"
The current version of Exim is 4.
The current version of Exim 4 is 4.04.
You can get it via ftp from here
    ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-4.04.tar.gz
The current version of the Exim documentation is 4.00.
You can get it via ftp from here
    ftp://ftp.exim.org/pub/exim/exim4/exim-pdf-4.00.tar.gz


- oliver


> Greetings,
>
> I am new to Exim and downloaded and installed what seemed to be the most
> up-to-date version, namely 4.02.
>
> I then went out and bought the The O'Reilly Exim Book.. However, I was a
> bit surprised to find that the Minimal Useable Configuration File on
> page 56-57 doesn't work (error = 'main option "end" unknown').
>
> Then I realised that the book doesn't actually say anywhere what version
> of Exim it refers to... Well, I eventually found on p517 a reference to
> version 3.22...
>
> So am I right in thinking that the book refers to 3.22+? I see that
> upgrading to version 4.x "will require configuration files to be
> rewritten" which explains my problem above...
>
> My question is: Is the 3.22+ branch still being developed (i.e. is 4.02
> etc. still in beta)? In other words, did I just blow 60 euros on an
> out-of-date book?
>
> Rgds,
>
> owen Boyle.