[quote user="PaulW"]

Don't forget the Mercury sub-windows are generally for information only - the modules carry on working even if the window is closed.  (The only functions you lose are 'Poll now' and 'Pause' - which I rarely use.)[/quote]

I rarely use the functions the windows provide either but I like to being able to see what is going on.

No reply needed.  I wasn't using mailing lists properly.  Seems to be working now.

Gordon

A 15 Mbit/sec connection (and much more) can easily be handled by Mercury, assuming the hardware is up to it. Make sure there aren't any references to old networking data in the settings, and verify in the task manager that only one instance of Mercury is started after server restart. If there is any real-time antivirus software or similar running, make sure all Mercury directories and email ports are excluded from scanning.

/Rolf 

> Thanks for answering. Unfortunately the auto-recognizing patterns do
> not match our internal user names which consist of the "first name
> initial + last name initial" (e.g. for my name Joerg Mueller -> jm).

Personally I would use jmueller for the account name and use of the ~n instead of the ~8 for those user names greater than 8 characters.

> Or are the patterns related to the external addresses? They consist of
> first name initial + last name (e.g. for my name Joerg Mueller ->
> j.mueller@domain.com)

> Anyway, I have activated the Address Auto-recognition Settings of
> Mercury for "Initial.LastName" address forms, but without success.
> Normal outgoing mails are being changed from jm ->
> j.mueller@domain.com while autoreplies or forwarded mails are being
> sent with jm@domain.com. For forwarded mails it doesn't matter because
> the recipient sees the original sender and not the address from where
> it has been forwarded. But for autoreplies in case of vacation or
> something else it is unlovely.

Can't help you here since the server is picking up the actual account name for the address.  That said, an e-mail address jmueller@domain.com would be a lot better than jm@domain.com.  I have an account addressed using  tstephenson@tstephenson.com and this 11 character username works quite well.  Most people would recognize this comes from me.  ;-)  You can't use anything other than ASCII characters here though since it is still an 8-bit ASCII SMTP system.


> Could you check another thing for me please? What have you filled in
> 'Mercury Core Module Configuration' -> 'General' -> 'Internet Name for
> this System'? In this box our domain is entered presently. But our
> domain is hosted by our ISP. At his server both our website and our
> mailboxes for each user are being configured and running. At the ISP
> the mailboxes have the form initial.lastname@domain.com (e.g.
> j.mueller@domain.com). Mercury is only polling each user mailbox
> regularly and is forwarding the mails to the local mailboxes (e.g. jm).
>    Is it right that our domain name is entered into the box 'Internet
> Name for this System' although Mercury is not the real mail server
> which is reachable for anybody who wants to send a mail to our users?

In my case the internet name for this system is the domain name I want to use for both maiser and postmaster.  It does not really matter how the mail is received (other than the fact that a domain mailbox is a real kludge at best) it is really important though that mail sent by the server get a valid domain name.  In your case your domain name is the correct name as long as Mercury is handling all mail users, i.e. no user is getting their mail except via Mercury.

FWIW, have you been talking to your ISP about using one of the tools where the mail can be pulled/pushed from their server to your MercuryS server directly.  This is a lot better since they would be delivering the mail using the actual SMTP MAIL FROM and RCPT TO addresses directly.  

> (Nevertheless, beside the little synonym issue, it works properly and reliably.)

Just applied the upgrade last week and saw the notes on Spamhalter & Clamwall.  Look interesting, and I'll take a look at them when I get a chance.

We run a B&B and have a public email address on our web site which draws a lot of spam. I've spent years refining my content control and have an action = delete that eliminates 50-60 percent, 200 or more, a day without my having to further review them. And I use global rules to divert virtually all email with attachments for review before delivery.

It may be one or both would integrate well.

 I was just hoping the "has" issue would be "fixed", (meaning defined as I hoped it would be) in the new release. I tried to use it a lot in combo rules (e.g. contains "insurance" AND has (auto, life, health.....) that kind of thing.  But have had to resort to using more statements using "matches"  since they like to spice things up like "Life Insurance" , "Life-Insurance", "LifeInsurance", etc.  Oh well.

Thanks for the feedback.

Mike

> I've setup Clamwall during the server setup in the install file of M32.
> Is the Clam daemon to be installed separately? I did saw that there
> was nothing selected in the Clamwalconfig on the page ClamAV-page in
> hte ClamAV daemon location section. Where should this point to if the
> daemon should not be installed separately.

Clamav needs to be installed separately and then Clamwall pointed to the program.  Turn off Clamwall until you get clamav installed.  Currently I use the one from

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]>

I assume that you are saying that this IP address of the sending system has been blocked by the ISP for sending spam.
[/quote] 

Correct, at least i think so....
[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]>

We really need to see this one and there is nothing at all insecure about posting the sending systems IP address.  It's in the header of every message you send from the system.
[/quote]  

OK, makes sence. It's 31.151.231.99

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]>
1.    You need to check the IP address to ensure it's not on any black list. 
[/quote]    
Don't think its blacklisted. Just blocked by ISP for sending spam (I think)
[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]>
2.    You need to check the error messages when sending, probably best done via MercuryC session logging. 

3.    Provide a copy of the Mercury.ini file so we can help analyze the problem. 
[/quote]   
Both sent to you by email.

THNX Thomas! 

PS: My mail sent to you is via my own server, not via my dad's! 

[quote user="robv"] Another question about statements: how can I say "They will be using port 465 from the outside" and the writer say "Correct" and also say "There's no reason for external senders to try any other port than 25"?[/quote]

I was answering the question that you asked:

[quote]This also presents a new problem (although I'm not thinking this through, so maybe I'm wrong): will MercuryS's connections actually be through localhost when connecting via stunnel?  If so, I'll lose the IP address of the connection in the MercuryS log.[/quote]

Hello,

I have suspected it, I could not convince the ISP.

Thank you for you kind support,

Thanks Guys,

I will try to remember this should it happen again.... 

> Okay, this IS going to take a few rounds but hopefully we're reaching the culprit.
>
> My (volunteer) ISP, for valid reasons, has decided to upgrade and this
> way invalidate my current setup. The setup has 2 duties:  
>
>
> *   POP3 domain mailbox splitting. 3 userid's are on my PC (all in
>     same Live Mail) and 1 is on the wife's. For this I use a filtering
>     rule, and if the header To contains her e-mail address I copy to
>     her mailbox.
>
> *   Forward to webmail (handy during daytime when I am not at home PC)
>
> What the ISP now has done is still receiving my e-mail but my subdomain
> avalokite.doge.nl now has become avalokite.cumail.nl through a Domain
> Alias. And my username/password towards the ISP changed, now the
> username is postmaster@avalokite.cumail.nl.

Did you add this domain to the Mercury domains list?  If this is the domain of the mail received into the POP3 mailbox and is not in the Mercury domains list then the mail will be considered non-local.  

> As far as I can see, nowhere in the Mercury files I have configured
> the domain name but it still might be somewhere...

Configuration | Mercury core | Local domains.

> Two scenarios tried uptilnow. First one: POP3D without 'default user'. Result
> 16:46:14 - Connecting to pop3.avalokite.cumail.nl:110 as 'postmaster@avalokite.cumail.nl'
>   - 6 messages successfully retrieved.
>   - 6 non-local messages ignored.

Domain of the received mail is not in the domains list and there is no default user.

>
> How the heck does it conclude that the messages are non-local? Does it
> make some assumption based on the fact that the polling address is
> cumail.nl?
>
> Anyhow, mail disappeared ;-) So I tried the next trick in the book,
> step by step debug: configured a 'local user' which basically disables
> all mail distributing rules. Still more interesting results:
>
>
> 17:00:27 - Connecting to pop3.avalokite.cumail.nl:110 as 'postmaster@avalokite.cumail.nl'
>   - 1 message successfully retrieved.
>   - 1 message delivered to 'lorderik@avalokite.doge.nl'.
>
> So far nice. BUT, what does Mercury do:
>
> *   Filtering rules executed normally, it forwards to the webmail
>
> *   However the mail for lorderik (Windows live mail client) is not
>     kept locally for the client, but sent over Internet to the ISP
>     again! Which cleverly enough decides this is a circular loup and
>     terminates.

Correct, you have set the local domain to a non-local domain so it is forwarded to the remote address which is of course puts is back into the same POP3 mailbox.

> So again, somewhere it seems that Mercury thinks it knows that all
> local mail clients should be configured with cumail addresses and
> anything received through a Domain Alias (the new scenario) does get
> through the filtering/forward rules but not in any decent way through
> the POP client. It is even very certain that any non-cumail address
> does not belong here...

A couple of ways.

1.    Create an alias for user@avalokite.cumail.nl to user@<a local domain> so the mail gets delivered to a local user.

2.    Not sure how to fix the webmail problem since that address is in fact the same address as the POP3 domain.  This means if lorderik@avalokite.doge.nl is the same as the POP3 address you will create a loop if forwarded back to the POP3 mailbox.  What you could do is forward this to a Yahoo or GMail account though.

> Who has an idea what goes wrong, and if fixable then how?
>  Tnx a lot,

Thanks Paul,

May be it's not soo bad that my users could only forward ALL of their mails or nothing. Then they hopfully felt annoyed from the lot of incoming e-mails on their mobile phones and do not forget to switch-off the forwarder after the weekend [:D]

I mark this thread as solved.

Cheers

Joerg

[quote user="emrnews"]Just a thought, aren't there any specifications as to what type of phone we can only use in order to access this type of email?[/quote]

Yes, it's called IMAP.

Be sure to get a phone that does it properly :)

I assume you are on the mailing list yourself? If so you should be able to find the .CNM file containing the distributed message in your mailbox directory. Open the file in a text editor (Notepad or whatever) and see if there is any obvious problem in it. If you want help examining it you can post it (or a link to it) here, at least the headers. (If there is some syntax problem it's probably in the address headers.)

/Rolf 

Thanks Rolf.

Its a very rare issue. Removing the faulty forwarding fixed the problem. Wanted to make sure that I had all Mercury/32 settings correctly set.

Thanks again.

Compton

Looks like the same problem as in this thread:

/Rolf 

MercuryC will always try to deliver messages as fast as it can, there are no settings to limit that. If you use mailing lists you could perhaps split them into several list with max 1000 recipients per list, and send at different times. Or you could find some other SMTP relay host that doesn't limit traffic, of course.

/Rolf 

Yes this works, I have backed the whole folder up too (Mercury directory structure). All of the files are located in the folder so it really is that easy. Watch path/folder name in case that changes as mentioned here.  Some things really are that easy, and totally makes sense to keep the backup so you don't have to reconfigure. Post if you still have an issue.

I won't need to worry about abuse as my dinky website only gets about i visitor a year. I just want to do it to say i can. I don't know any programming like c++ or Perl. I don't even know cgi. so I guess it's just not possible for right now.