First International
Exim Conference
and Tutorial

23 & 24 February 2005
Birmingham , UK

Organized with the co-operation of the UKUUG

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Timetable
• Tutorial
• Programme & schedule
• Conference Dinner (& pubs for meeting after dinner)
• Venue & Travel
• Accommodation
• How to Book, Booking Form, and Costs
• UKUUG Winter Conference

(A printable version of this information, as of 10-Dec-2004, is available as a PDF document.)

Overview

Philip Hazel, Exim's creator, has run excellent Exim courses for several years.   Many course attendees have requested an Exim conference, complementary to the courses and to provide a technical and social meeting point. UIT Cambridge decided to organize the Exim Conference because we publish Philip's Exim Official Guide .

The Exim Conference is organized with the kind assistance of the UKUUG (the UK 's Unix and Open Systems User Group).   The UKUUG's Winter Conference takes place in the same venue, immediately following the Exim conference.

Timetable

The full timetable for the tutorial and conference is available as a PDF: download PDF timetable. Please note the earlier start times for sessions, marked in red below. (These are different to those previously shown here.)

Tutorial

Content- & Virus-Scanning with Exim
Tim Jackson

Wednesday, 23-Feb-2005

09:30--12:30

Intended Audience : mail administrators at small, medium or large sites who want to cut down on junk mail, and keep out viruses & trojans.

• Content scanning at the MTA – pros and cons
• Methods of implementing content scanning – the options available
• Software required to implement content scanning with Exim
• A brief overview of common external scanning software
• A look at Exiscan, a content scanning patch for Exim
• Some other considerations and example configurations

Tim Jackson has been working with Linux systems for the past five years, and with Exim for most of that. Taking a particular interest in content scanning (primarily due to being fed up with spammers invading his inbox) he has worked with a number of commercial organisations to implement spam and virus scanning solutions using Exim.   He is the author of the widely-used "HOWTO: Spam and Virus Scanning with Exim".

Tutorial -- what's included

The tutorial fee includes:

• Refreshments
• Lunch on Wednesday
• A free copy of Philip Hazel's book The Exim SMTP Mail Server: Official Guide (RRP £37.50)

Tutorial places are limited - early booking is advisable

Conference Programme

The full schedule for the tutorial and conference is available as a PDF: download PDF timetable
Below is the list of speakers and topics, with links to abstracts and/or full papers or presentation slides.

Short Talks

There will be no short talks: there is no time available for them.

Conference Dinner

On the evening of Wednesday, we have arranged the conference dinner at Las Iguanas, a Mexican restaurant, about 10-15 mins walk from the Conference hotel:

Start time: 7:15pm.

Their Web site has a location map: view map. A copy of the map is also printed on the back of the downloadable PDF timetable

You pay at the restaurant as a regular visitor; we are not selling tickets for the dinner. However, you do need to let the Conference Office know that you will be coming (email officeukuug.org) so that we can ensure there are enough places reserved for us.

Pubs for after dinner

A delegate has suggested that the following pubs are fairly close; apart from that, we don't know anything about them :-).

• The Anchor Inn
  Bradford St.
  Digbeth
  B5 6ET
  http://www.the-anchor-inn.fsnet.co.uk/
• The Lamp Tavern
  257 Barford St.
  Highgate
  B5 6AH
• Good new pub in the town centre: The Wellington
  37 Bennetts Hill
  Birmingham
  B2 5SN

Location & Travel

The conference will take place in the Paragon Hotel, a Grade II listed building located in the centre of Birmingham :

Situated at the very heart of England, Birmingham is closer than you think. It has excellent transport facilities and is convenient to reach from cities and towns throughout the UK.

Maps

• Street Map
• Multimap
• Map Quest

Train

Birmingham International Railway Station is a convenient 90-second SkyRail journey from Birmingham International Airport. New Street Station is located in the city centre and can also be reached through The Mall Pallasades. It provides easy access to shops and attractions as well as a regular route to London Euston and other major cities.

The hotel is approximately a 15-minute walk from Birmingham New Street station. Taxis are also available from the station, with a journey time of approximately 5 minutes.

Also located in the city centre, Snow Hill and Moor Street Stations serve routes from London Marylebone and areas in the West Midlands. The recently renovated historic Moor Street Station completes Birmingham's three mainline stations, all of which have parking facilities and bus services conveniently located nearby.

Please contact National Rail Enquiries for timetable and route information: www.nationalrail.co.uk.

Car

Birmingham is the heart of England's motorway network linking the M1, M5, M6, M40 and M42. The city provides easily identifiable routes to towns and other cities throughout the UK, as well as quick access to Birmingham's major attractions and venues.

Opened in December 2003, the M6 Toll Road creates an additional route to and through Birmingham. For those who prefer a more scenic drive, a number of major roads such as the A34 and A38 provide alternative journeys to and through the city.

There are some 200 car parking spaces at the Hotel. Parking cost to delegates is £4.00 per day. Spaces are allocated on a first come first served basis. There is also plenty of street parking near the Hotel.

Coach

National Express offers journeys to Birmingham from 500 locations in Europe and provides access to 1,200 destinations in England, Scotland and Wales via Birmingham. Especially popular are the Heathrow and Gatwick airport routes and the hourly-service from London Victoria. Just 10 minutes' walk from the city centre is Birmingham's main coach station, Digbeth. About to undergo a refurbishment, Digbeth will be replaced by a new coach station for Birmingham, which will offer improved facilities and convenient links to Snow Hill Railway Station.

Air

With more than 50 airlines flying from over 100 destinations, visitors from Dublin to Dubai will find Birmingham International Airport a convenient entry point to the city and region. Adjacent to the National Exhibition Centre and Birmingham International Railway Station and just 8 miles from the city centre, the airport offers a host of hotel, parking and car hire facilities.

Accommodation

A number of rooms for delegates at the Paragon Hotel have been reserved for the nights of 22-Feb (Tue) and 23-Feb (Wed), at a special rate of £59.95 per night. This price includes a full English breakfast.

All rooms must be booked direct with the hotel ; please quote ‘UKUUG' when booking to secure the discounted rate for delegates.

(You are, of course, welcome to make your own arrangements for accommodation: Birmingham is a thriving city with a good choice of hotels in and around the city centre.)

Costs and booking form

See separate page for tutorial / conference fees and booking form

UKUUG Tutorials and Winter Conference

See the UKUUG Web site: http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/

UIT Cambridge Ltd
PO BOX 145
Cambridge CB4 1GQ
England
exim-confuit.co.uk
www.uit.co.uk
Tel: +44 1223 302 041
Fax: +44 1223 302 043