[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]

What it the IP address of your fixed IP connection used by the router.  You domain name needs to be set in the DNS with an A record pointing to this IP address and an MX record pointing to this host name.  I have previously provided this info.  FWIW, why in the world are you munging your IP address, it

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Hello Thomas

I know you have already provided me this info with regards to DNs and the A record, I have already set that up from your last post, I was just letting you knew with in my last post what I had done. [:)]

I hope i have not offended you by munging my IP address, As i'm new to this I was unsure if it was safe to show my full fixed IP address [:$]

Following steps to resolve issue with WHS not working with Mercury/32  

Ok following your help I have completly set it up and still does not work but don't worry found out why, I set my laptop up and installed Mercury/32 on that and then forward all the correct ports to the laptop and all worked fine [:S]

So changed ports of back to WHS2011 and checks all settings in Mercury/32 all fine - then thought Ehhh lets check the firewall !!!! I turned off Microsofts WHS2011 firewall and Boom Mercury/32 works fine send and recive email works LOL.

So know I just need to find out how to change the firewall to allow <ercury to run correctly....

I will be back to ask some quest's soon as I would like to do some other stuff around this but need to sort out the firewall now.

Big thak you again

[:D] 

It would be a good idea if you explained what you are intending to do with the Mercury server.

As Rolf says, you need to be able to have a domain name which you can control before you can make much use of a mailserver.

Try putting on the session logging which gives all the SMTP conversation between the server and client.  That may give you more information.

Thanks a lot for that, Thomas. I've posted on Apple's forum so I'll let you know if I get a response. Another iPhone user reported the same issue last year but no responses were made :(

[quote user="Rolf Lindby"]You could declare the daemon function the way you describe, but if it's actually never going to be called you could presumably leave it out.

I haven't used Visual Studio 2010 to compile a daemon so I can't comment on that part.

/Rolf[/quote]

Thanks, Rolf.  I read "In its simplest form, a Daemon is a simple 32-bit Windows DLL that
exports a single function, called "daemon"." and figured it must be there.  So I put it there.  It's working fine.

Thank you the forwarding solution is working perfectly. 

Thank you for your kind support,

Best regards,

Jhonny

Thank you for your kind support,

Best regards,

Jhonny

Well, there are certainly a few here who run Mercury on Win7 so I guess you'll just have to wait until they spot this.

I use Mercury on Windows Storage Server 2008 under the administrator login and the help files display without any problems both via Mercury and by opening mercury.hlp from the installation folder.

If your Internet provider blocks outgoing traffic on port 25 you will either have to convince them not to do that for your IP, or switch to using the SMTP client module MercuryC to relay outgoing messages through your Internet provider's SMTP server.

/Rolf 

I went through this issue of using Thunderbird with Mercury, with SSL, several months ago.  In the end, I got it to work satisfactorily.  Within my LAN, I didn't use SSL, but used it for external connections.  This is discussed in the threads  and http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/29655.aspx.  Maybe some parts of these threads may help.

In the end, I decided not to use SSL for external connections.  Instead, I now use OpenVPN.  External connections are effectively part of my LAN and I don't need to use any other connection secuirty.  It saved having to make another hole in my firewall, as that for OpenVPN was already there.  As I am the sole external user, there is no significant management problem.

Gordon

Hi,

Just received an answer from David:

"Are you using any mailing lists? Each mailing list counts as a single user.
Also, the reserved "postmaster" and "maiser" accounts also count as
users."

Now it's clear.

Cheers

Joerg

> We had mercury crashing about 3 times in the last 6 months but we
> didn't notice until a few days after it hapenned. Is there a way to
> get notifications of it crashing? or is there a external tool we could
> use to let us know it crashed or to make sure that the emails didn't
> get send?

1.    Use something like ServersAlive <http://www.woodstone.nu/salive/> to monitor the server.  It also can send notifications.  There are many others as well but I've not tested them.

2.    I use both the Mercury and NT wrapper to load Mercury as a service, both with automatically restart the server.

aol.com is known to be very strict about the reverse DNS, so this could be the problem. For full details about the connection error you can temporarily switch on session logging in MercuryE.

/Rolf 

No Rolf.  It was me who was missing something!  At the moment, I am saving a message to a file within Global Filtering.  I guess I can have Policy do this instead ... which would probably be simpler (fewer statements in the Global Filtering rules).

Thank you. 

Gordon

why are you want to need a detail? tell me?

The sender address for a message is normally set by the client program that sends the message to Mercury. For some server generated notifications it's created from "Internet name for this system" in Mercury core configuration. (See Mercury help!)

/Rolf 

You will get a separate email with the required licence file. This isn't integrated in the automatic Paypal routine, so there is unfortunately some delay.

/Rolf 

[quote user="PaulW"]

Can any of your other providers handle all your outgoing mail?

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Unfortunately no

[quote user="PaulW"]

And why can you not send from Outlook?

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We have a strict policy about mail: all incoming and outgoing must be processed in M32, for  archiving, control and filtering purposes.

Anyway, I solved setting up multiple instances of M32.

It would be nice if in future versions of M32 we could use multiple instances of the sole MercuryC (I seem to remember that someone here in the forum said that in Netware it's possible); anyway, I think M32 is a great piece of software; absolutely worth the registration.

With so little information it's impossible to say. Start by verifying that local domains in Core configuration are specified correctly (check Mercury help or the manual). If that isn't it please post the contents of your mercury.ini file.

/Rolf