exim 4.50 released

I have emailed john already, details below.


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I have just put Exim release 4.50 on the primary ftp site:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.50.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-4.50.tar.bz2

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This release contains a lot of new features, including the merging of the
exiscan patch into the main source.

As usual, all changes are in the doc/ChangeLog. See also the README.UPDATING
file for changes that might impact on some installations. The manual has
been updated for this release, so doc/NewStuff is empty.
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The primary ftp server is in Cambridge, England. There is a list of mirrors in:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/Mirrors

The distribution files are signed with Philip Hazel's GPG key; the signature
files are in the same directory. The MD5 hash codes for the distribution files
are:

41ef46af9962dc241919ab5c545c4a8b exim-4.50.tar.gz
7844eff82171872f6b3971a4183368d9 exim-4.50.tar.bz2

The distribution contains an ASCII copy of the 4.50 manual and other documents.
Other formats of the documentation are also available:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-html-4.50.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-pdf-4.50.tar.gz

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-postscript-4.50.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/exim-texinfo-4.50.tar.gz

The .bz2 versions of these tarbundles are also available.

The HTML documentation contains the FAQ and configuration samples. These are
also available separately in HTML or txt format from the ftp site:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/FAQ-html.tar.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/FAQ.txt.gz
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/exim4/config.samples.tar.gz

The ChangeLog for this, and several previous releases, is included in the
distribution. Individual change log files are also available on the ftp site,
the current one being:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.50
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/ChangeLog-4.50.gz

Documentation for new features that have not yet been included in the manual is
available in the NewStuff file in the distribution (there are none for this
release). Individual NewStuff files are also available on the ftp site, the
current one being:

ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/NewStuff-4.50
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/email/exim/ChangeLogs/NewStuff-4.50.gz

Enjoy.

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Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service,
[email protected] Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.

Those of us who need to know all of what Dr Hazel writes are probably already subscribed to the proper exim list(s).

Perhaps you could just extract for us the "new stuff" and whether or not this release covers any serious security issues.

Thanks.

Jeff

I was just about to post this

as well some people may not be subscribed and you can just download the file there and check out the change log to decide if there is anything worth upgrading

sure

it looks like quite the overhaul, i think i will see how it goes with da_tests since there is no absolute security vuln in there.

Hi Guys,

I've made all the binaries for exim, you can find them in http://files.directadmin.com/services/<youros>/da_exim-4.50<ext>

The only missing ones are RH8 and FC2, but you can just get the src rpm and build it: http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.50-1.src.rpm

John

unable to upgrade..

rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.50-1.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libdb-4.2.so is needed by da_exim-4.50-1

Hi,

I'm getting the following error:

tried to take the plunge and run on a non critical DA server for a while but its rejecting stuff in my old config, quite some changes in this version.

RayManZ said:

Hi,

I'm getting the following error:

Code:

[root@server1 i386]# rpm -Uvh da_exim-4.50-1.i386.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
        file /etc/aliases from install of da_exim-4.50-1 conflicts with file from package setup-2.5.33-1

Click to expand...

Try to force it.

rpm -Uvh --force da_exim-4.50-1.i386.rpm

Upgrade with src.rpm file, HowTo for red hat users (tested on FC2)

(Based on hostpc.com guide in here: http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6560&perpage=20&pagenumber=4 )

Good luck!

upgraded and broke my clamav installation. unknown "av_scanner" syntax

revert back to 4.44

dannygoh said:

upgraded and broke my clamav installation. unknown "av_scanner" syntax

revert back to 4.44

Click to expand...

Check your exim.conf for the virusscanner section.

dannygoh said:

upgraded and broke my clamav installation. unknown "av_scanner" syntax

revert back to 4.44

Click to expand...

This was the problem with mine also, its rejecting the clamav lines.

Any fix on that?

I think DA needs to re-release the packages. It seems a configuration switch was missed.

yep, was about to post the same, I think in exim 4.50 exiscan has changed and a confiugration switch is needed to enable it.

John answered to me. It seems he missed that switch. New packages will be released. Let's hope that was really it .

Also, some rules in exim.conf need to be changed. demime is now deprecated.

Hello,

Ok, I've added the da_exim-4.50-2 version to our files system.

Source rpm:
http://files.directadmin.com/services/da_exim-4.50-2.src.rpm

and most of the binaries in their usual location. I added:

WITH_CONTENT_SCAN=yes

to the Local/Makefile.

John

Hi,

Has anyone upgraded Exim to 4.50 with FreeBSD? I'm using FreeBSD 4.10 here and I'm wondering whether to upgrade.

Thanks,
Matt