> Is it possible to force a Reply-To header on a mailing list?  I'm seeing that some clients default replys to the list, while others default to the sender.

Shure? If "Reply to list" isn't set, answer should be send to FROM. SENDER is the header for the mailadress of sending instance - most times the adress of the mailserver. It's for automated routines ... not for mailclients.

> I see there is an option to "force replies to go to the list"

Forces mailserver setting a (new) REPLY-TO to mailinglist ...

> but what about forcing them to the sender?

To your mailserver?

A mailclient should look for REPLY-TO and - if not present - take FROM for replying. But - as with Pegasus - there is no problem telling the mailclient to ignore REPLY-TO ...

I never had problems with that feature on restricted lists. Are there replies not sent to FROM or in case of error to mailadress defined for ERRORS-TO?

Hope this helps

    Olaf

Many thanks. Didn't realise there was a dedicated Pegasus forum.

Thanks again for all the help. After switching to Mercury E I have had no issues.

Thanks

Ray Heinz 

I know I was getting emails through using Mercury before my W7 re-install. I know I was doing substantial 'testing' of Mercury's functions and parameters without it ever crashing. Now I'm NOT having that success at all.

I apologize I think I have shown bad attitude in coming in to this wanting to prove it was some sort of a uninstall/reinstall application problem. 

Thomas is correct. I am barred from the SMTP "E" system. I must have been using SMTP "C" when I was having successes. 

I have switched to SMTP C. The crashes are back. I start Merc the first time and can go through everything. I send my email. It crashes. I restart, it crashes. I clear the Queue and can sucessfully restart I can then go through it (until I try to send another email). The crashes are too fast to read the messages in the consoles. After it all: 1) there are a few queue entries for the one email, 2) no mercury C logging entries,

3) 1 mercury C session entry  ...

22:18:33.843: --- Sat Jan 22 22:18:33 2011 ---
22:18:33.843: Connect to '(null)', timeout 30.
22:22:51.385: --- Sat Jan 22 22:22:51 2011 ---
22:22:51.385: Connect to '(null)', timeout 30.
22:24:50.211: --- Sat Jan 22 22:24:50 2011 ---
22:24:50.211: Connect to '(null)', timeout 30.

It certainly crashed in less than 30 seconds!

Yes, there are STRANGE things going on with my ports that I am looking into more before I conclude anything, but hope someone can reason the problem from the only messages I can find.

> From this posting, I have verified that the dm= entry is indeed processed prior to the mailing list entry.  Frankly, this is a bug
> IMHO.

The mail for a mailing list uses the list name and the domain as listed in Configuration | Mercury core | "Internet name for this system" and that should never be a domain mail box.  To address a mailing list is will be <listname.from lists.mer>@<internet.name.for.this.system>

I'm not sure what you are doing here with the dummy domain to get access to the lists.

Thanks again Rolf :)

Posted to the list as well - added info here for those that are forum centric.

Finally got it to behave with version 4.62 and an outgoing rule filter. I

do use the interface to create my rules and somewhat condensed what each

entry does so that it didn't line wrap terribly in my post(s).

I found my problem. It turns out that 'someone' changed my firewall settings on me (after 'someone' disabled the firewall I was soon to replace, anyway) and there was something that Mercury didn't like about Windows 7 firewall 'public' settings, for which. I apologize, I have investigated no further than to turn that off (for now anyway).

I may be following your recommendations as through it all I'm now getting 'core' errors on my admin mail file. But first I gotta get to why 'someone' now keeps turning that firewall setting back on on me (grrrrrrrrrrr). Thank you, Rolf!

After Microsofts patch tuesday (9 updates), the mail is running OK.

This is fixed in current versions of Mercury, so please upgrade. The removed attachment will be replaced with at text like this:

   Filename:            Test.zip 

The rule may remove MIME parts you want to keep as well, so you may need to check that there is a filename (a regular expression looking for "?*" will do it).

/Rolf 

Did you check MercuryS logs for connection attempts? It actually looks very much like there is some other program answering on port 25 on your server (assuming that you are trying to send, not receive).

/Rolf

[quote user="MartinTruckenbrodt"]what willl happen if I'm deleteing the CNM files manually?[/quote]

Well, you will get rid of the message - that is what a mail client will do in deleting an email in the mailbox. So long as you don't have the mailbox open using another client I don't think it will cause a problem.

This is not an error message from Mercury but from the receiving SMTP server.

There are two ways to change how messages are sent to list members. In Distribution you can have Mercury create up to 20 separate jobs for delivery ("fanout"), in Error handling you can select VERP-based to have separate delivery for each member. From Mercury help:

"VERP-based error handling   VERP stands for "Variable Envelope Return-path Processing": when using this method, every recipient in the list gets a separate copy of every message sent to the list, and in that copy of the message, a special version of the Return-path field is created that allows Mercury to work out the individual list and subscriber from any errors that get returned to it."

/Rolf 

Hello Chris,

thank you very much for the answer!

I've done a Outgoing & Always trigger rule. I've selected the action 'Copy message to another user' and put in the name of the user.

Bye Martin

Hello,

problem sloved.

I've been looking still add the core modules configuration. Now I've been looking at the MercuryS SMTP Server configuration.

Bye Martin

Disable MercuryX unless you actually use it. If you use it you will need to download this patch:

http://community.pmail.com/files/folders/patches/entry24194.aspx

/Rolf 

The From header is normally set by the program that creates the message, in this case Pegasus Mail, so that's where you should look for the sender address. If you can't find it, please post to the Pegasus Community Support forum about it.

/Rolf 

OK, I´ll tray to do it next week.

Thanks. 

Hello all,

This was posted on the old mail list, but I think that list is little frequented, so am x-posting
here in the hopes that I can get this sorted quickly. Thanks in advance for any help.

I thought I would narrow down one of the issues that I am having with Mercury to make it hopefully a bit less to wade through.

I am a listmum on a group and need, from time to time, to send out emails from the email address
that is received by all listmums.This email is forwarded to each of our main email accounts, and I
am able to receive them, at this point, with no problems. Obviously I cannot poll that email
account, as the mail is forwarded to me.

I have listed the domain in the various configurations in my list of domains in the mercury.ini file. I am using Pegasus Mail.
iistudio: prodig.org
iistudio: prodig
iistudio: mail.prodig.org

I have an identity set up for this purpose and need that email address to be the 'from' address as well
as the 'reply to' address. I have also set it  to auto cc emails sent from that address to the listmoms@prodig.org email,
so all listmums are aware of any issues I am dealing with on my 'watch'.

I am not, however, able to send emails through Mercury using the sender's address as this listmum
address (listmoms(at)prodig.org). I need that to be the 'from' address as well as the 'reply to'
address. I have it set to auto cc emails sent from that address to the listmoms(at)prodig.org email,
so all listmums are aware of any issues I am dealing with on my 'watch'.

 Currently I am getting the following 4 error messages for each mail, when I send from that email
address as Mercury is refusing to process them. It says:

  --- Problems not related to specific addresses in the message:
   Job has invalid or illegal from address.
 *** listmoms(at)prodig.org

 *** "Ellie Kennard - duty Prodig Listmum" <listmoms(at)prodig.org>
   User "Ellie Kennard - duty Prodig Listmum" <listmoms(at)pr not known at this site.

--- Problems not related to specific addresses in the message:
   Job has invalid or illegal from address.
   *** Ellie(at)iistudio.com

  *** "Ellie Kennard - duty Prodig Listmum" <listmoms(at)prodig.org>
   User "Ellie Kennard - duty Prodig Listmum" <listmoms(at)pr not known at this site.

The strange thing is that Ellie(at)iistudio.com is a valid address on the system and one that I use regularly with no
difficulty.

How can I make this work, does anyone have any ideas? I do not have a fixed ip address (ISP only allows them for
business accounts which cost a fortune) but seem to have no difficulties in sending (now) from
a gmail address. I used to be able to do this with no problems but have made several changes to the
Mercury.ini file (under direction from Thomas Stephenson etc., who is,I think, away) and now am unable to make
this work.


Cheers!

Ellie