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proskurin-kv at fxclub

Oct 2, 2009, 11:18 AM

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Exim development

Hello all.

I just wandering - how Exim development is going on?
Last version is released 20 December 2007 - really too long time ago.
I just love Exim - it is great but it is seems to it will have a Qmail
story. :-( It is abandoned?

I will like to help with testing or something like this.

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wbh at conducive

Oct 2, 2009, 11:37 AM

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Proskurin Kirill wrote:
> Hello all.
>
> I just wandering - how Exim development is going on?
> Last version is released 20 December 2007 - really too long time ago.
> I just love Exim - it is great but it is seems to it will have a Qmail
> story. :-( It is abandoned?
>
> I will like to help with testing or something like this.
>

Check the devel mailing list archives - work is still ongoing for a new(er) release.

Otherwise,


"If it ain't broke, don't fix it"

.. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here...

HTH,

Bill

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chibi at gol

Oct 4, 2009, 8:42 PM

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On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote:
>
> .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here...
>
While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native DKIM support (no
patching, binary packages from the distro of your choice) is starting to
hurt.
Lets not repeat the discussion about pro and cons of DKIM, this is a
question of having an easy and fully supported way to offer DKIM for those
who want it or have a political (managerial) need to implement it.

The last official word about this from Tom was on March 30th IIRC and
since then nothing about it and Exim 4.70.

Regards,

Christian
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wbh at conducive

Oct 4, 2009, 10:36 PM

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Christian Balzer wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote:
>> .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here...
>>
> While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native DKIM support (no
> patching, binary packages from the distro of your choice) is starting to
> hurt.
> Lets not repeat the discussion about pro and cons of DKIM, this is a
> question of having an easy and fully supported way to offer DKIM for those
> who want it or have a political (managerial) need to implement it.
>
> The last official word about this from Tom was on March 30th IIRC and
> since then nothing about it and Exim 4.70.
>
> Regards,
>
> Christian

4.69 is not the barrier.

WITH_DKIM =

.. is already in the Makefile.

As to 'binary' and 'distro' ISTR the tools to make the result of compilation
into an RPM or similar 'package' are free, plentiful, and not hard to utilize.

If it was a *Pony* you wanted 'compiled', OTOH .. 'wishing' is probably safer.

;-)


Bill



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iane at sussex

Oct 5, 2009, 3:16 AM

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--On 5 October 2009 13:36:53 +0800 W B Hacker <wbh [at] conducive> wrote:

> Christian Balzer wrote:
>> On Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:37:15 +0800 W B Hacker wrote:
>>> .. there is nothing remotely resembling the Qmail saga here...
>>>
>> While that is certainly true, the lack of fully native DKIM support (no
>> patching, binary packages from the distro of your choice) is starting to
>> hurt.
>> Lets not repeat the discussion about pro and cons of DKIM, this is a
>> question of having an easy and fully supported way to offer DKIM for
>> those who want it or have a political (managerial) need to implement it.
>>
>> The last official word about this from Tom was on March 30th IIRC and
>> since then nothing about it and Exim 4.70.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Christian
>
> 4.69 is not the barrier.
>
> WITH_DKIM =
>
> .. is already in the Makefile.

yes, but libdkim isn't. The docs refer to
<http://duncanthrax.net/exim-experimental/libdkim-1.0.15-tk.tar.gz> two
more recent versions are available there, but not easily discoverable, and
I don't see documentation about that fact.

Tom said about 4.70 that the DKIM implementation is stand-alone (library
included in Exim bundle, no additional dependencies), and the new library
supports some non-POSIX platforms like Windows (I know). On the other hand,
support for domainkeys is dropped - not that I think that's a great loss.

>
> As to 'binary' and 'distro' ISTR the tools to make the result of
> compilation into an RPM or similar 'package' are free, plentiful, and
> not hard to utilize.
>
> If it was a *Pony* you wanted 'compiled', OTOH .. 'wishing' is probably
> safer.
>
> ;-)
>
>
> Bill



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