On 2006-06-27, Jon Bendtsen <jon.bendtsen@???> 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.
