Exim 4.64 Released

For FreeBSD 5.x/6.x users, to update Exim, do the following (when the file is available from DA).

# cp /etc/exim.conf /etc/exim.conf.bak
# fetch http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd5.1/da_exim-4.64-1.tgz
# pkg_delete exim-4.xx-x
# pkg_add da_exim-4.54-1.tgz

Restart Exim through DA control panel.

Edit: Or restart from the command prompt as so:

# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/exim restart
 
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Thank you !

You can try this howto for centos or similar

wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.64.tar.gz
tar xvzf exim-4.64.tar.gz
cd exim-4.64/Local
wget http://www.directadmin.com/Makefile
perl -pi -e 's/^EXTRALIBS/#EXTRALIBS/' Makefile
cd ..
make
make install
cp -f /usr/sbin/exim-4.64-1 /usr/sbin/exim

type in y to force copy

chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/exim
service exim restart
exim -bV

(should indicate 4.64 version)
if yes you can delete sources

cd ..
rm -rf exim*

Worked on all my servers.
 
mmx said:
For FreeBSD 5.x/6.x users, to update Exim, do the following (when the file is available from DA).

# cp /etc/exim.conf /etc/exim.conf.bak
# fetch http://files.directadmin.com/services/freebsd5.1/da_exim-4.64-1.tgz
# pkg_delete exim-4.xx-x
# pkg_add da_exim-4.54-1.tgz

Restart Exim through DA control panel.
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Not so easy as that. If sombody is running Dovecot then the patch must be run on exim.conf too after apply this update.
 
xemaps said:
Thank you !

You can try this howto for centos or similar

wget ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.64.tar.gz
tar xvzf exim-4.64.tar.gz
cd exim-4.64/Local
wget http://www.directadmin.com/Makefile
perl -pi -e 's/^EXTRALIBS/#EXTRALIBS/' Makefile
cd ..
make
make install
cp -f /usr/sbin/exim-4.64-1 /usr/sbin/exim

type in y to force copy

chmod 4755 /usr/sbin/exim
service exim restart
exim -bV

(should indicate 4.64 version)
if yes you can delete sources

cd ..
rm -rf exim*

Worked on all my servers.
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Will this affect my exim.conf settings for spamassassin or clamav? Or its as simple as what you listed there?

Thanks :)
 
hey tarionix,

this doesn't affect exim.conf, SA and other thing...

But you should always make backups :)

I prefer update from source rather from rpm to avoid surprise.
 
tarionyx said:
Will this affect my exim.conf settings for spamassassin or clamav?
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It most probably will.

At the very least you'll always have to recopy both exim.pl and exim.conf from DirectAdmin, or from your own backups.

Never mix. You must always get exim.pl from the same place you've gotten exim.conf.

And as someone else has posted if you've got Dovecot you've got major conversion problems.

Note that SpamBlocker version 3 of the exim.conf file will be out within a few days, and Dovecot-compatible versions will be available for servers both with and without ClamAV installed.

But in general always wait for the DA installations; they take care of all the changes for you, and they're very fast at their builds.

Jeff
 
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