Exim on Centos

The version of Exim that comes with rpmforge is currently 4.63 which is somewhat lower than the latest version. Rpms for the latest version (currently 4.77) is available from atrpms. Create the file /etc/yum.repos.d/atrpms.repo on any target machine and add the following content –

[atrpms-stable]
name=Centos $releasever – $basearch – ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/stable
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
includepkgs=libspf2* libsrs*

[atrpms-testing]
name=Centos $releasever – $basearch – ATrpms
baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el$releasever-$basearch/atrpms/testing
gpgkey=http://ATrpms.net/RPM-GPG-KEY.atrpms
gpgcheck=1
enabled=1
includepkgs=exim*

To update exim simply run yum update exim