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Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.

Key facts

Software.title
Exim Internet Mailer
Software.name
Exim
Software.logo
Exim-blue-ld-sml.png
Software.author
Philip Hazel
Software.developer
The Exim Maintainers
Software.programming language
C
Software.operating system
Unix-like
Software.platform
Cross-platform
Software.genre
Mail transfer agent
Software.license
GPL-2.0-or-later

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Official website

Exim Internet Mailer

Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet.

exim.org

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Wikidata facts

Official website
www.exim.org
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inception
1995-00-00
Stack Exchange tag
serverfault.com/tags/exim
software version identifier
4.99.1
source code repository URL
github.com/Exim/exim
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Contents
  • Origin
  • Design model
  • Configuration
  • Configuration styles
  • Documentation
  • Performance
  • Updates
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

Exim is a mail transfer agent (MTA) used on Unix-like operating systems. Exim is a free software distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License, and it aims to be a general and flexible mailer with extensive facilities for checking incoming e-mail.

Exim has been ported to most Unix-like systems, as well as to Microsoft Windows using the Cygwin emulation layer. Exim 4 is currently the default MTA on Debian Linux systems.

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