Search Results matching tags 'Mercury' and 'smtp'

multiple SMTP Relay accounts

EricT2000 — Thu, 19 May 2011 15:17:52 GMT

I have a dynamic IP from my ISP which means I don’t want to send my own email, as some people consider mail from dynamic automatically spam. Furthermore my ISP restricts the number of unique FROM: email addresses when sending to 10 and I have to register all email addresses that will be used for sending. I run a small business and this limitation of max of 10 outgoing addresses is hurting me.

I see two solutions: 1) is to pay for a SMTP service to relay the mail for me. I’ve done that in the past, and it’s ok, but they’re expensive.

2) my ISP (Rogers in Canada, which is in cahoots with Yahoo by the way) allows multiple mail boxes, so I’ve been thinking that I set up a mail box for each employee. But this means that the Mercury Relay SMTP client somehow has to send to the correct Rogers/Yahoo mailbox depending on which of my employees is doing the sending. And I don’t think it can do that.

So then plan B was to run multiple Mercury’s – one for each employee. But this becomes a nightmare to administer, and I’ve been running Mercury forever (10 years+) and how do I take the various user sections apart into separate folders for each mercury?

So do you have any suggestions on how I can solve this?

PS: With proper SPF, can I send directly without being considered a spammer? I've never really figured out SPF...

I am getting the following error from mercC: "Error FF servicing queue job."

juice — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:55:50 GMT

I run my own personal webserver with a free url of http://gensite.homedns.org. I have a paid URL of gamesoda.com which I have a webhop (redirect) in place to send my friends to the free URL (gensite.homedns.org). I have mail set up with the registrar to send mail to gamesoda.com and it has to be sent using port 1125.

I use MS-Outlook on my laptop to get my mail from MM, which is on a different computer in my home (the webserver).

I have had Mercury mail set up for the past 6 months and it has been working fine for me for about the past 3 (it took me a few months to finally get it working). Two days ago, it stopped sending and receiving.

I have the following set up currently:

mod: field: value

core: internet name: gamesoda.com

core: username: Admin

core: local domains: (I have the following 5 entries. I have used both "localhost" and "gamesoda"for the host with the same results. which one should I use?)

-------gamesoda

-------gamesoda.com

-------localhost

-------mail.gamesoda.com

-------home

mercS: announce me: gamesoda.com

mercS: listen on TCP/IP port: 25 (also tried port 1125)

mercS: IP interface to use: 127.0.0.1

mercP: IP interface to use 127.0.0.1

mercC: Smart Host name: mail.gamesoda.com

mercC: port: 1125

mercC: announce me: mail.gamesoda.com

mercC: login and username: filled in with correct information

mercD: POP3 Account: 127.0.0.1:110, admin

I am getting the following error from mercC: "Error FF servicing queue job."

If you need any more information, please ask. I am running this on a win2k machine. It is an XAMPP bundle and I have upgraded to MM4.72.

'Announce myself as' configuration

Greenman — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:36:00 GMT

Hi folks

I was discussing our mail server setup with a couple of guys who have audited our Windows network. One of the points that came up was that mail servers 'announce' themselves and that this information can be a security concern. They said that you can change this information and 'hide' your Internet name making it more difficult for anyone trying to hack the system.

I was checking out Mercury/32's configuration. When we set it up we followed the advice in the help file and left the 'Announce myself' field blank, as the help file states 'In the majority of cases this field can and should be left blank'.

What I don't quite understand is how this affects the way the mail is delivered. The guys I was talking to said that authentication works on the domain name of the sender address.

So, if I change the 'Announce myself as' field to 'Heritage Services' I assume that the headers will reflect this in the HELO: ? What I don't want to happen is that I change this value and then have mail bounced back to me because of authentication or other errors.

Here are the relevant parts (I hope) from my Mercury.ini file:

[General]
myname: apsarchaeology.co.uk # Canonical name for this server

[MercuryE]
HELO : apsarchaeology.co.uk

[Protocols]
MERCURYS.DLL
MERCURYP.DLL
# MERCURYE.DLL
MERCURYC.DLL
# MERCURYD.DLL
# MERCURYH.DLL
# MERCURYF.DLL
# MERCURYW.DLL
# MERCURYX.DLL
MERCURYI.DLL
MERCURYB.DLL

[Domains]
apsarchaeology: apsarchaeology
apsarchaeology: apsarchaeology.co.uk
lincsheritage: lincsheritage.org
lincsheritage: lincsheritage
heritagelincs: heritagelincs
heritagelincs: heritagelincs.org

MercuryS and MercuryC GUI:
Announce myself as: blank

So, I wonder if anyone has any comments they would like to share on this. I understand the basics of SMTP delivery (thanks, Thomas!), but when it gets into authentication of domains I'm lost. If you want to see more information please ask.

Thanks.

Generate 400 level smtp error code

terryz@housevalues.com — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:16:08 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know how to generate a 400 level smtp error to the MTA from Mecury server?

We have a StrongMail server as the MTA which fowards emails to Mercury server and listens for the response. We are trying to simulate a scenario to have 400 level smtp error code return to Strong Mail (MTA)

Thanks

Terry

Pop3 Alternate Port

rjspann — Mon, 21 May 2007 03:33:49 GMT

Is there a way to set an alternate port for Pop3 as there is for the SMTP server. In other words, the normal port 25 would continue to work, but connections could also be accepted on an alternate port?

TIA

Sendmail, MercuryMail and a plea for a beginners guide!

moose1 — Sat, 12 May 2007 09:21:45 GMT

Hi All,

What a great forum!

I'm new to MercuryMail, mail servers, SMTP etc so excuse my dumb questions. I'm running Apache on Windows as a development server (using the XAMPP bundle) to test a data analysis tool (see bovianalyser.dyndns.org). I'm looking to have the tool mail back the results of it's analysis to the user. I've built the tool in PERL and am trying to use the fake sendmail (bundled with xampp) to use mercurymail's server capabilities to send out the analysed data.

I've got the pipe between the tool, fake sendmail and mercury mail running fine and nothing reports any errors. It just doesn't send anything! The message bounces between the mercury SMTP client and server until i kill it. Any helpful hints?

On a somewhat related note, i've found the mercurymail help pages and manual incredibly dense, hard to extract information from and not very friendly for the beginner who isn't interested in becoming a MercuryMail expert. I know this is a cop-out, but in this modern fast-code life we lead it would be great if there was a more readily accessible user manual, setup guide. Is there already one out there?

Thanks for your time and help.