**** UPDATE NOTE 2005-09-27 - READ THIS ****
I am not actively maintaining these RPMs right now; Exim is a problematic
piece of software to package due to the many options available. The RPMS
that exist here include packages as follows:

- exim-base (a "base" meta-package - install this)
- exim-mon (X11 monitor, eximon)
- exim-saexim (SA-Exim local_scan plugin, installed via local_scan dlopen 
              patch)

followed by the following variants:

- exim (basic build)
- exim-mysql (build with MySQL support)
- exim-perl (build with Perl support)
- exim-pgsql (build with PostgreSQL suport)

Unlike most packages, the above variants are MUTUTALLY EXCLUSIVE. That is,
you can't install exim-mysql with exim-pgsql. They are both complete builds
of Exim, one with MySQL support and one with PostgreSQL support. This is nasty
but is due to the fact that Exim doesn't support loadable modules for support
of external libraries, so short of doing an Exim build that includes
ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING (and would have billions of dependencies), this is the
best idea that anyone has come up with. However, it does screw with some
package management tools such as yum.

As a consqeuence, it's too much hassle. At the moment I am using the RPMs from
the Fedora Extras repository for Fedora-based machines:

http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/extras/

and rebuilds thereof, for other Red Hat-alike OS's (e.g. CentOS). Note however
that the base package builds do not support many extensions like MySQL. It's
not too difficult to rebuild them with different options, however.


As a long-term solution, I am currently working on patching dlopen() support
into Exim, which would allow a "base" package accompanied by a number of 
"plugins" for all the (many) optional libraries. A bit like PHP, if you follow
the Red Hat packaging of that.  At the time of writing (2005-09-27), I am
getting somewhere with this patch but it's not currently working and I don't
have an ETA at the moment on getting it up and running. I'll update this file
with any news.


Thanks and good luck!


Tim J

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These RPMs are built by Tim Jackson <tim@timj.co.uk> are not "official" Exim
RPMs as such, although Tim is an active contributor to the exim-users list
and as such will attempt to fix anything that breaks wildly with Exim
conventions, although nothing has been pointed out so far.

The RPMs are intended to work in a basic configuration "out of the box".

Please note that in some cases the RPMs are built against newer versions of
MySQL than those included in the respective distributions. In these cases,
the official distribution RPMs from MySQL (www.mysql.com) have been used to
build against, normally named MySQL-[package]-[version].[arch].rpm . If you
want the RPMs to work on a "clean" distribution (i.e. one that only uses
distribution vendor-supplied packages, presumably with the exception of
Exim), rebuild the RPM (see below), changing the MySQL dependency to match
your distribution (Red Hat and Fedora use "mysql-xxx" instead of
"MySQL-xxx").


REBUILDING RPMS
---------------
If you want to rebuild the RPMs for any reason (e.g. if binary RPMs are not
provided for your distribution, or you want to rebuild against a different
MySQL version), just download any of the SRPMS (exim-foo.src.rpm - they are
all the same in terms of content though not dependencies; see below). Then do
this:

1. Set up an RPM build environment as a non-root user. This is very easy.
See http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/ for more details.

2. rpm -ivh exim-foo.src.rpm

3. cd SPECS

4. rpmbuild -ba exim.spec

(Repeat step 4 if you have build dependency errors, installing any required
packages)

You may be able to substitute the above instructions for "rpmbuild --rebuild
exim-foo.src.rpm", but the build dependencies are encoded into the SRPM and
may not match your system (some of them are calculated at build time).