Re: [exim] Exim installations data

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Author: Mike Cardwell
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim installations data
On 13/12/2010 11:33, Alain Williams wrote:

>> The most interesting figure is that only 6% of installations appear to
>> be version 4.70 and above.
>
> If they are using distro supplied versions of exim (which will prob be most
> people) the headline version # might be quite old. For RedHat/Centos 5 it
> is 4.63 -- but patched, eg:
>
>     220 mint.phcomp.co.uk ESMTP Exim 4.63 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 11:30:56 +0000

>
> I don't know what the corresponding version numbers are for Debian.


4.69

> You should be able to view the build date remotely. The 220 line that you
> get on connecting to port 25 tells you what it is (see above).


That's the current system date/time, not the build date/time.

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