When running Mercury as a service a newer version of the HTTP server should be used. This version communicates with Mercury via a command interface daemon, and works with Windows session 0 isolation. It can be downloaded here:

http://downloads.serieguide.se/webtools.zip

There isn't any support for mailing list settings, unfortunately. 

/Rolf 

Hello to all

As the subject suggests I'm trying to find a way of detecting multiple numbers of 'to' address's in the incoming CC field. If this is possible I want to reject a message, send it back to the originator with a message saying something like 'to many addresses in the CC (or to) field etc. and suggest they use Bcc. My reasons for hoping to adopt this are that sometimes the number of addresses in the to or CC field are larger than the actual message itself, it's bad etiquette regarding peoples privacy and it can be haven for harvesters I understand.

Many thanks in advance

Regards

Ron

Have a look at Petr Jaklin's POPwatch daemon here:

Additionally, Mercury 4.73 will introduce some new security functionality to prevent brute force hacking of POP3 accounts.

/Rolf 

I expect that is more or less what will happen. Still, those parts of the code that relies on random numbers will have to be identified and tested, so it will need some time even if existing number generator code is used.

/Rolf 

AHA, Mr Stephenson, you ever bubbling fountain of knowledge.

I had been looking for this feature, but searches on "delay" and "schedule" came back fruitless. I was familiar with it in the old NOVEL day, but thought that it had fallen by the wayside since then.

This is just what I need to make it all work.

Many thanks

> Hello, on first, sorry for my English, i come from Spain.
> I have installed mercury with a SMTP of Gmail. It works correctly, but i received the messages from my account of Gmail.
> I'd like to have several webpages with sendmail, and id like to hide my email address and put "From Webmail" or something similar.
>  How can i do it ???

GMail does change the From address to the address of the GMail account.  You can create a new GMail account with the address you want.

GMail though should be able to send using other addresses that you have authorized in the GMail options under Accounts and Imports "Send mail as".  From the GMail help:

I'm a Gmail or Google Apps user sending from an external address.

    Sign in to Gmail.
    Click the gear icon in the upper-right and select Gmail settings and select the Accounts and Import tab.
    Under Send mail as, click Add another email address.
    In the 'Email address' field, enter your name and alternate email address.
    Choose one of two options:
        Use Gmail's servers to send your mail (this is easier to set up)
        Use your other email provider's SMTP servers (we recommend this option for professional mail accounts or domains). Note for Google Apps users: Depending on your domain type, this feature may be disabled by default. Talk to your administrator if you have any questions.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you are trying to do. Unless you own the domain example.com there is probably not much to gain from trying to use it in the mail server setup. If Outlook is running on the machine as Mercury just specify 127.0.0.1 as POP3 server address in Outlook to receive messages.

/Rolf 

After getting some advice from James Haley, previously a server admin here, I went ahead and edited the lists.mer file and copy and pasted the entries from the previous mlf file to the new one. It appears that is working.

[quote]The TRANSFLT.MER file looks like this:

H, "*xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx*", R, "554 Action not allowed."

I'm not sure if you are giving an example of a specific IP address

here.  One useful filter is to put your own IP address in here - nobody

else should be using your IP in a helo greeting.[/quote]

This is indeed my own IP address Paul.

[quote]H, "*GET*", R, "554 Action not allowed."
H, "*AUTH LOGIN*", R, "554 Action not allowed."
R, "*AUTH LOGIN*", R, "554 Action not allowed."
H, "*EHLO windows*", R, "554 Action not allowed."


These are unnecessary as all the examples you have shown have been

blocked by other means. (And the first might be harmful as it blocks

any helo with those three letters in it.)

These are the most useful lines I use:

# just a number
H,"HELO [0-9]+??", RS, "550 Invalid response"
# no dot
H,"*.*", RSN, "550 Invalid response"

The first rejects helos which just consist of digits, and the second rejects those with no dot in it.[/quote]

Thanks for that, I'll remove the last 4 lines and replace them with your useful ones instead. Still weighing up the pro's and con's of Graywall, now I know it's not 'serious' but more annoying and the bandwidth isn't suffering I feel a bit better about it.

Thanks again for taking the time to get back and advise Paul, much appreciated

Regards

Ron 

Hi Chris,

Further to discussion we had here in 2009, when you were considering Blackberrys and I was trying to get IMAP working on my E71, I installed Profimail (licence cost £15-20) on our E71s and it's much nicer than the Nokia client, which I haven't attempted to use since. So I can;t say what might be wrong, but it may be worth trying the 30 day free demo of Profimail - at worst, it would confirm whether the E72 hardware is OK.

Chris

Yes Paul, I was referring to the link indicated, however I have managed to resolve the problem. Senility figures into this. [:)] My port redirect was actually working okay. It helps though if the port one is redirecting to is opened to accept the connections. [:D] I opened 2525 in ufw and connects are now getting through to Mercury.

Through all of this though I came across something of interest. The highly recommended procedure for adding rules like this in Debian-based system is to utilize  /etc/init.d/local rather than an /etc/rc.local. Here's a link:

That's the routine I am using .

I also did alterations to the redirect sample line to fit my needs. Because I have several ethernet connections I specified the one I wanted it on. Also, I guess

REDIRECT --to 2525 works but I "think" it actually should be REDIRECT --to-port 2525

Here's what I came up with for myself:

iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i eth1 -p tcp --dport 25 -j REDIRECT --to-port 2525

If you are using an IP address in place of a domain name in a mail address you should enclose it in brackets - ] (but many servers won't accept mail addressed like this anyway).

You are using MercuryE end to end delivery module but nobody will be able to help you with a connection error if you hide the real addresses - there can be many reasons why you may have trouble with these deliveries.

[quote user="incose"] Thanks, more details would be great. I have a simple scenario, just 1 domain, but with off-site users that pop their mail from the isp mailbox (the e-mail domain is of course the same as the e-mail domain of the local network).[/quote]

I don't quite follow you with the 'e-mail domain', but here's an example:

If you have a user joe with email address who wants to collect his email from joe70@ispmail.com.  Create an alias (in Configuration / Aliases) with joe@yourdomain.com as the alias and joe70@ispmail.com as the real address. Then any mail for joe will be sent on to his isp mailbox.

(Note that this is just a simple example and doesn't keep any of joe's mail on the Mercury server.)

> So I get this error when trying to send mail in PHP mail(). I checked

all the SMTP options in mercury mail,
> but didn't find any that would

disable the authentication need.

>
> How can I remove authentication for SMTP in Mercury Mail?

Configuration | MercuryS | Connection control will allow you to turn off the authentication but why not just turn on the authentication in you PHP mail()?

Thomas:

 Thanks for your quick response.  I think I figured out the problem on my own.  By examining CC and BCC as well as To and From, the POP3 Client tried to send the emails with CC's to other company users to the recipient as well as to all of the folks on the CC list, with the result that some users got the same message as many as six times.  I removed the CC and BCC from the Headers box and now have POP3 Client examining only To and From.  So far, no problems.  

In our setup, we have the POP3 Client picking up all incoming email from one common domain mailbox, the redirecting it through the Mercury Core Process and to the SMTP Client (relay version) to send it to the personal email accounts of the various users.

If I see any strange duplicates popping up, I'll get some more information and post it here.

Many thanks!

Ron

have migrated to a linux vServer now (yesterday) (took me some hours, it is not a "no-brainer" like mercury, and costs me 4$ a month)... BUT

it is REALY amazing fast...

have NO problems with android/thunderbird ...

(had to delete 1000s of emails in sent folder, because of bug in mercury..)

the most amazing Thing: 

when marking a message as read in thunderbird, it gets marked read on the phone in REALTIME (2 seconds!) (and vice versa )

i am using ubuntu->postfix(with maildir)->dovecot->roundcube...

1:1 copied all emails with "imapsync"..

Receiving a message from an email client running on the server should be lightning fast. Delivery via MercuryE to some server on the Internet will of course depend on a number of factors, but should in general be very quick as well.

Create session logs from MercuryS and/or MercuryE to find out exactly where the delay happens. Possible reasons for delays could be a misbehaving sending program, or some program interfering with Mercury's access to files or SMTP connections (such as for instance an antivirus program or some spam filter).

/Rolf 

I have had some success.

What are you trying to achieve?

Chuck

Thank you, Paul, for pointing out the existence of the logical AND in the interface, and thank you, Gordon, for finding it and posting the location. I'd searched the interface for a logical AND but failed to find it - I think I must have assumed that the actions listed under "then do this" would all take place at the end of processing.

I've input my rule using the interface and it works. Interestingly, the syntax for the AND is different from that in content control. Also, my manually input incorrectly formatted rule has disappeared, Mercury presumably having cleaning it up.

Chris

> I added a second MX record to my domain, pointing to a different server. The records point to 'mydomain.com' with priority 1 and to
> 'secondary.com' with priority 10. I was assuming that email would be delivered to 'secondary.com' only if 'mydomain.com' was not available.

> However, I am seeing some email delivered to 'secondary.com' even though mydomain.com was up and receiving email at the time. Some of
> this email comes from legitimate bulk mailers (e.g a newsletter from an association I belong to). The rest is spam. I've even seen one or
> two delivered to primary AND secondary.
>
> I'm curious whether the mailers sending to the secondary are broken, or whether I misunderstood the semantics of the priority in the MX
> record.

You understand the rules for a MX host, however many spammers automatically connect to the highest numbered MX host to bypass the anti-spam settings of the primary host.  In addition, even if your primary is up there may be something you're are doing to reject and then many host just go to the next higher host even when they get a 500 series fatal error message.

Personally I use the following MX settings where the highest host points back to the primary to try and bypass some of this.  ;-)

  tstephenson.com, MX, 10, mail.tstephenson.com
  tstephenson.com, MX, 20, mailrelay.bayarea.net
  tstephenson.com, MX, 30, mail.tstephenson.com