I have a domain mailbox. In the course of investigating another matter, I moved a group of CNM files to a different folder. I've now moved some of them back into the domain mailbox folder. However, when queried by a pop3 client, Mercury reports that there are no messages.

07:43:00.032: << +OK Welcome! 0 messages (0 bytes)<cr><lf>
07:43:00.250: >> UIDL<cr><lf>
07:43:00.250: << +OK unique IDs follow...<cr><lf>
07:43:00.250: << .<cr><lf>
07:43:00.469: >> LIST<cr><lf>
07:43:00.469: << +OK 0 messages, 0 bytes<cr><lf>
07:43:00.469: << .<cr><lf>
07:43:00.688: >> QUIT<cr><lf>

 How do I get Mercury to see the messages?

Regards

Richard

That's great guys, I'm just not sure now how to mark both answers as the answer

> Thomas,
>
> I believe your is a good practice, but for users is more simple to
> have the same account for incoming / outgoing, so this method was
> preferred (also if involves in more workload for postmaster).
>
> Alex.

Simpler makes is easier for the spammers to get your server on the black list when one of your users gets his credentials hacked.  Getting access to your files on the server that contains the SMTP authorization credentials is a whole lot harder.

You can also use group SMTP AUTH credentials that will reduce the workload on the users and postmaster a bit.

>  I'm trying to configure Mercury to fetch my mails send to my dyndns Adress. But it doesn' work at all.
>
> Can you give me some advice, please?

Not sure what you are looking for but DynDNS can forward mail sent to that address using the IP address of the system running Mercury.  If Mercury is behind a router then you send it to the IP address of the router and then use NAT to forward port 25 to the system running Mercury's internal address.

Your ISP may be blocking all port 25 actions and so you may have to have the DynDNS system forward to something like port 587 and set MercuryS to receive on that port as well

[quote user="fabrizio"]when I receive a message from a specific address I would like to redirect to a specific user and forward it to an external email address..[/quote]

Use a global rule to do that (Configuration / Filtering rules).

Have you tried that already?

From Mercury help, Core module configuration:

Username of postmaster  Every system capable of receiving Internet mail must have a user called postmaster, to whom problem and status reports are sent. The postmaster account is usually an alias to a real user on your system, and this is the expectation within Mercury. Enter in this field the username of the user on the machine where Mercury is running who is to act as your postmaster. While it is permissible to have a non-local address as your postmaster address, we strongly recommend you do not do this, since it can create real problems and mail loops when the remote machine is unreachable. This setting is mandatory - Mercury cannot run properly without it.

OK, blind as well as dumb.

Found it just after posting.

Installing WinPMail and Mercury/32 for multi-user standalone mode

Your right, Thomas, I forgot to add the session log.  The reason was that I couldn't find a file for any of the failed messages, only successful ones.  As you can see from my follow-up post, I may have found the problem.

GordonM

Adding custom header lines with a "content-type" to the mail only seems to work if I use the AREPLY.CFG method. While this does add more options, it is also more error prone to setup for the user. (The thread you referenced also mentions the "Web Tools for Mercury 32". While they might work great in some circumstances, they do not work at all if the mailbox directories are on Novell NetWare, i.e. Mercury in eDirectory mode.) Using AREPLY.CFG also requires us to switch our SMTP and Core server from MERCURY.NLM to Mercury32 (though we need to do this anyway).

If I use the standard AREPLY.PM, the text is just added as the content of the e-mail, I wish I could set a content-type somewhere.

Greetings

Markus Borst

Found the problem: Not the new MercuryD.dll causes the crash but polling the hotmail account itself. Polling the hotmail with the original dll causes Mercury to crash as well. Maybe you can pass that to David. If he needs anything from me to debug/reproduce this, I'm more than happy to help...

Konrad

Mercury can handle mailing lists with many recipients if you need to use this feature frequently. Most email clients, including Pegasus, allow you to specify hidden recipients by using the BCC field, though, which saves you the work to set up and run an email server.

/Rolf 

I give up!

Thank you for your assistance!

Thanks very much you have been very helpfull :)

Thank you, Thomas.  I think that I have a handle on this now.  As I noted earlier some servers are sending several single messages in Bcc situations and some are sending a single message.  However, I know this now and know how to cope with it.

Gordon

> I was introduced to this email program a long time ago and my business
> has grown with it. I find it a very powerful tool and much better than
> Outlook, although it may be a little more complicated to set up. My
> only issue is that the product will occasionally crash when i mail my
> government contracts. Most of these sites are .Gov or .edu sites. Any
> ideas why this happens?

None at all since I am using Pegasus Mail and Mercury to send/receive mail to/from all sorts of GOV and EDU sites with no crashes at all.  We would really need a session log showing the failure to provide any help at all.  FWIW, how are you receiving the mail in Mercury?  MercuryS?  MercuryD?

There was indeed reatime virus scanning going on on this server. Perhaps that's the culprit. At least now I know where the file lives and can make periodic copies for safekeeping.

Thanks, Dave Silsbee 

[quote user="Surgeon"]Could you please tell me if it's possible to backup the entire Mercury directory structure and then restore it to a new system. Will it work?[/quote]

Yes, provided it is the same drive letter as before.  Otherwise it is probably easier to install and configure a new version and then copy selectively.

thank you

not as obvious to me thats why you are the expert

> Warning: mail() [function.mail]: Failed to connect to mailserver at
> "MERCURY/32" port 25, verify your "SMTP" and "smtp_port" setting in
> php.ini or use ini_set()

FWIW, the question should go in the body of the message.  In any case do you have MercuryS running?  What happens when you try to telnet into port 25 of the Mercury system? Maybe port 25 is being blocked.

> I don't know if I should put the question here but I've read the
> thread and just want to ask about having two IP address. How can it be
> done? Thanks.

Assuming that you have two IP addresses and domain names the easiest way is to install a second network interface card (NIC) and add the IP address to that card.  You can also do this with a wireless connection as well.