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exim High performance MTA for Unix systems on the Internet
4.99.5_1 mail on this many watch lists=0 search for ports that depend on this port Find issues related to this port Report an issue related to this port View this port on Repology. pkg-fallout 4.99.5_1Version of this port present on the latest quarterly branch.
Maintainer: fluffy@FreeBSD.org search for ports maintained by this maintainer
Port Added: 2026-07-27 22:46:45
Last Update: 2026-08-11 07:34:14
Commit Hash: bc66be7
License: GPLv2
WWW:
https://www.exim.org/
Description:
Exim is a mail transfer agent for Unix systems connected to the Internet. It is a monolithic MTA designed to be a command line compatible drop-in replacement for Sendmail. Exim is an excellent mailer for an ISP, as its control and flexibility are very good and its requeueing and retry algorithms are very powerful. Exim's configuration syntax is well documented.
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Manual pages:
pkg-plist: as obtained via: make generate-plist
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  1. /usr/local/share/licenses/exim-4.99.5_1/catalog.mk
  2. /usr/local/share/licenses/exim-4.99.5_1/LICENSE
  3. /usr/local/share/licenses/exim-4.99.5_1/GPLv2
  4. @mode 4755
  5. sbin/exim
  6. @mode
  7. sbin/exim_checkaccess
  8. sbin/exim_dbmbuild
  9. sbin/exim_dumpdb
  10. sbin/exim_fixdb
  11. sbin/exim_id_update
  12. sbin/exim_lock
  13. sbin/exim_msgdate
  14. sbin/exim_tidydb
  15. sbin/exicyclog
  16. sbin/exigrep
  17. sbin/eximstats
  18. sbin/exinext
  19. sbin/exipick
  20. sbin/exiqgrep
  21. sbin/exiqsumm
  22. sbin/exiwhat
  23. share/man/man8/exim.8.gz
  24. @comment sbin/eximon
  25. @comment sbin/eximon.bin
  26. share/doc/exim/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  27. share/doc/exim/NOTICE
  28. share/doc/exim/README.UPDATING
  29. share/doc/exim/ChangeLog
  30. share/doc/exim/DANE-draft-notes
  31. share/doc/exim/NewStuff
  32. share/doc/exim/OptionLists.txt
  33. share/doc/exim/POST-INSTALL-NOTES
  34. share/doc/exim/POST-INSTALL-NOTES.clamd
  35. share/doc/exim/README
  36. share/doc/exim/README.SIEVE
  37. share/doc/exim/dbm.discuss.txt
  38. share/doc/exim/experimental-spec.txt
  39. share/doc/exim/filter.txt
  40. share/doc/exim/spec.txt
  41. share/examples/exim/transport-filter.pl
  42. etc/periodic/daily/150.exim-tidydb
  43. etc/periodic/daily/460.exim-mail-rejects
  44. @sample etc/exim/configure.sample
  45. @comment @sample etc/exim/sa-exim.conf.sample
  46. @dir(mailnull,mail,) /var/log/exim
  47. @owner
  48. @group
  49. @mode
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USE_RC_SUBR (Service Scripts)
  • exim
Dependency lines:
  • exim>0:mail/exim
Conflicts:
CONFLICTS:
  • exim-ldap2-4.*
  • exim-mysql-4.*
  • exim-postgresql-4.*
  • exim-sa-exim-4.*
  • exim-sqlite-4.*
To install the port:
cd /usr/ports/mail/exim/ && make install clean
To add the package, run one of these commands:
  • pkg install mail/exim
  • pkg install exim
NOTE: If this package has multiple flavors (see below), then use one of them instead of the name specified above.
PKGNAME: exim
Flavors: there is no flavor information for this port.
distinfo:
TIMESTAMP = 1785056318 SHA256 (exim/exim-4.99.5.tar.bz2) = 7e1728d128f71ecf4fdf24550ee9119991e8c703af7e191b088c39d48562bdb9 SIZE (exim/exim-4.99.5.tar.bz2) = 2135961

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SHA256 (exim/sa-exim-4.2.1.tar.gz) = 24d4bf7b0fdddaea11f132981cebb6a86a4ab20ef54111a8ebd481b421c6e2c1 SIZE (exim/sa-exim-4.2.1.tar.gz) = 68933

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Slave ports:
  1. mail/exim-ldap2
  2. mail/exim-monitor
  3. mail/exim-mysql
  4. mail/exim-postgresql
  5. mail/exim-sa-exim
  6. mail/exim-sqlite
Dependencies
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Build dependencies:
  1. p5-File-FcntlLock>0 : devel/p5-File-FcntlLock
  2. perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
Runtime dependencies:
  1. p5-File-FcntlLock>0 : devel/p5-File-FcntlLock
  2. perl5>=5.42.r<5.43 : lang/perl5.42
Library dependencies:
  1. libopendmarc.so : mail/opendmarc
  2. libidn.so : dns/libidn
  3. libidn2.so : dns/libidn2
  4. libspf2.so : mail/libspf2
  5. libpcre2-posix.so : devel/pcre2
There are no ports dependent upon this port
Configuration Options:
===> The following configuration options are available for exim-4.99.5_1: ALT_CONFIG_PREFIX=off: Restrict the set of configuration files CONTENT_SCAN=on: Enable exiscan email content scanner DAEMON=on: Install scripts to run as a daemon DANE=off: Enable experimental DANE support DEBUG=off: Build with debugging support DISABLE_D_OPT=on: Disable macros overrides using option -D DKIM=on: Enable support for DKIM DNSSEC=on: Enable DNSSEC validation DOCS=on: Build and/or install documentation EMBEDDED_PERL=on: Enable embedded Perl interpreter EVENT=on: Messages events support (TPDA namely) EXIMON=off: Build eximon monitor (requires X libraries) ICONV=on: Enable header charset conversion INTERNATIONAL=on: Enable support for the transmission of UTF-8 envelope addresses IPV6=on: IPv6 protocol support LISTMATCH_RHS=off: Enable pre-4.77 behaviour for match_* LMTP=on: RFC2033 SMTP over command pipe transport OCSP=on: Enable OCSP stapling PRDR=on: Enable Per-Recipient-Data-Response support PROXY=off: Enable Experimental Proxy Protocol READLINE=off: Enable readline(3) library SOCKS=off: Enable smtp transport via socks5 proxies SPF=on: Enable Sender Policy Framework checking SUID=on: Install the exim binary suid root WISHLIST=off: Include the unsupported patches ====> SMTP Authorization AUTH_CRAM_MD5=on: Enable CRAM-MD5 authentication mechanisms AUTH_DOVECOT=on: Enable Dovecot authentication mechanisms AUTH_PLAINTEXT=on: Enable plaintext authentication AUTH_RADIUS=off: Enable radius (RFC 2865) authentication AUTH_SASL=off: Enable use of Cyrus SASL auth library AUTH_SPA=on: Enable Secure Password Authentication AUTH_TLS=off: Enable TLS client certificate authentication SASLAUTHD=off: Enable use of Cyrus SASL auth daemon PAM=on: Enable PAM authentication mechanisms PASSWD=on: Enable /etc/passwd lookups ====> Lookup support CDB=on: Enable CDB-style lookups BDB=off: Enable Berkeley DB lookups DNSDB=on: Enable DNS-style lookups DSEARCH=on: Enable directory-list lookups LSEARCH=on: Enable wildcarded-file lookups MYSQL=off: Enable mysql lookups NIS=off: Enable NIS-style lookups OPENLDAP=off: Enable LDAP lookups PGSQL=off: Enable postgresql lookups REDIS=off: Enable redis lookups SQLITE=off: Enable SQLite lookups ====> Supported storage formats MAILDIR=on: Enable Maildir mailbox format MAILSTORE=on: Enable Mailstore mailbox format MBX=on: Enable MBX mailbox format ====> Experimental options CERTNAMES=off: Check certiticates ownership DCC=off: Enable DCC at ACL support via dccifd DMARC=on: Enable DMARC support DSN=off: Enable Delivery Status Notifications ARC=off: Enable experimental ARC support LMDB=off: Enable LMDB lookups QUEUEFILE=off: Enable queuefile transport ====> TLS support: you can only select none or one of them TLS=on: TLS support GNUTLS=off: Use GnuTLS instead of OpenSSL for TLS ====> Local scan patch: you can only select none or one of them SA_EXIM=off: Build with Spamassassin local scan (BROKEN) ====> Sender Rewriting Scheme: you can only select none or one of them SRS=off: Enable Sender Rewriting Scheme OLD_SRS=off: Enable Alternative Sender Rewriting Scheme ===> Use 'make config' to modify these settings
Options name:
mail_exim
USES:
compiler cpe tar:bzip2 perl5 iconv:lib,build ssl
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Number of commits found: 2

Commit History - (may be incomplete: for full details, see links to repositories near top of page)
CommitCreditsLog message
4.99.5_1
11 Aug 2026 07:34:14
commit hash: bc66be760293b613cb50787e90c23f5752cf3851commit hash: bc66be760293b613cb50787e90c23f5752cf3851commit hash: bc66be760293b613cb50787e90c23f5752cf3851commit hash: bc66be760293b613cb50787e90c23f5752cf3851 files touched by this commit		 Dima Panov (fluffy) search for other commits by this committer 
mail/exim: daemon fails to create notifier socket on start if no correct exit
(+)

Since recent version (e.g. 4.98) exim successfully creates notifier socket file
in FreeBSD.
But if file already exists during exim start it's just ignored with error
message in log.
Without notifier socket exim cannot check if there is already running exim
daemon
with e.g. such condition: ${if eq {$queue_size} {} }.

Add socket file removing before daemon start.
exim_notifier_socket variable is added for notifier_socket setting overriding in
exim configuration.

PR:		281615
Notified by:	vvd

(cherry picked from commit 5d6b7ba559157e30942d5a06683662823d078d59)
4.99.5
26 Jul 2026 09:45:29
commit hash: 7c1a67923b2eadc68306acd68a94df5400251e1bcommit hash: 7c1a67923b2eadc68306acd68a94df5400251e1bcommit hash: 7c1a67923b2eadc68306acd68a94df5400251e1bcommit hash: 7c1a67923b2eadc68306acd68a94df5400251e1b files touched by this commit		 Kurt Jaeger (pi) search for other commits by this committer 
mail/exim: update 4.99.3 -> 4.99.5, fix security issues

PR:		297061
Approved-by:	maintainer (implicit)
Security:	EXIM-Security-2026-06-22.1 (GCVE-25-2026-07-45-1)
		EXIM-Security-2026-06-22.3 (GCVE-25-2026-07-45-3)
		EXIM-Security-2026-05-19.1 (CVE-2026-48840)
Changes:	https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20260529.143857.4c75d7df.en.html
		https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20260722.140124.4feb2a88.en.html
MFH:		2026Q3
(cherry picked from commit d6ba466b400f671cf2da74bd4e5eb801ca5bacff)

Number of commits found: 2
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