This site http://mystyleit.com/blogs/mystyleit/archive/2009/06/15/running-mecury-mail-as-a-service.aspx says: "Be careful not to start Mercury in the native app mode while the service is running, or you might make it angry. The best way to do it is to stop the service, launch Mercury, make your configuration changes, close Mercury, restart the service."

So, don't just start the GUI while the service is running. You should you the use the 'annoying' feature that you might have disabled to make configuration changes. Or stop the service prior to opening the GUI.

thank you its now working great thanks to your help [:)]

done

Check that the user you're running Mercury as has permission to create and delete files in the Mercury folder.

Chris

Thanks for confirmation. It is hard to tell if it is Mercury or Popfile but I do suspect Popfile.

I did find out in another post that I can copy back the files to the Queue and get them to process by restarting Mercury so that helps when the problem occurs. It hasn't happened in a week but I am keeping an eye on it so see if I can discover anything else.

 thanks again

davew

Open the Windows registry with RegEdit and check for a key containing "MS Sans Serif" in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes. If it exists then delete that key.

Note: Modifying the Windows registry can cause big problems if any mistake is made, so make sure you understand how to use the program before deleting anything.

/Rolf 

As you are relying on ASSP Antispam for spam fighting you will probably have to seek the solution there. It puts itself between Mercury and the Internet, and makes several of the antispam features in Mercury useless. You could run SpamHalter as well or hope this specific type of spam will be caught by Mercury content control, but I doubt it would help much in this case.

/Rolf

 Here is the mercuryC logs. i see that extra < in the email that the forums sent. Sorry i dont know alot about scripts and code (just enough to put up a site and forums, which then brings me here to bug you guys with my problems. Thanks again for all the help and if you need anymore files or logs let me know. I also posted on SMF forums  havent gotten a response.

T 20100331 051920 208 Begin processing job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 051920 208 Job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 081404 494 Begin processing job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 081405 494 Job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 081926 8b4 Begin processing job MO000002 from  <postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
E 20100331 081926 8b4 501 5.5.2 MAIL FROM syntax error
T 20100331 081958 8b4 Begin processing job MO000005 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 081959 8b4 Job MO000005 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 083053 26c Begin processing job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 083053 26c Job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 083213 604 Begin processing job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 083213 604 Job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 084306 604 Begin processing job MO00000C from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 084306 604 Job MO00000C from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 084306 604 Begin processing job MO00000B from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 084306 604 Job MO00000B from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 085327 604 Begin processing job MO000010 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 085328 604 Job MO000010 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 104347 968 Begin processing job MO000003 from thomas@tstephenson.com
T 20100331 104348 968 Job MO000003 from thomas@tstephenson.com processed OK.
T 20100331 104655 968 Begin processing job MO000006 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 104656 968 Job MO000006 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 104728 968 Begin processing job MO000007 from support@tstephenson.com
T 20100331 104728 968 Job MO000007 from support@tstephenson.com processed OK.
T 20100331 175205 390 Begin processing job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 175205 390 Job MO000004 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.
T 20100331 175543 390 Begin processing job MO000008 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net
T 20100331 175544 390 Job MO000008 from postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net processed OK.

I hope this works thank you

Thanks for the update.

i do this because in spain are a several law in material of data

protection, and i don't like have problems, but, thomas know this info,

then, this is the real ini

This has nothing to do with data protection, this has everything to do with the setup of your system though.

Thomas, if i undrstand you well, i need put this line

HELPPC:  helppc
HELPPC:  helppc.org
HELPPC:  [87.235.215.29] ;

if you have a fixed IP address.

in Domains, it'strue?

Yes and probably it should really be

HELPPC:  helppc
HELPPC:  helppc.org
HELPPC:  helppc.com
HELPPC:  [87.235.215.29]

Since you also have the domains helppc.com and mail.helppc.com pointing to this same IP address.

> Hello Mr. Stephenson,
> your mail domain tstephenson.com is registered with the DNS system.

Yes, it is registered.  But I also have some DynDNS domains registered as well and there is no problem using the GMail servers as long as I authenticate and use the proper setup.

(b) -SMTP STARTTLS -

  Server host name: smtp.gmail.com
  Server TCP/IP port: 587
  SSL/TLS: via STARTTLS
  Enable server certificate fingerprint tracking: checked
  SMTP Authentication: Login to the SMTP server using POP3
  username/password (the GMAIL-POP3-definition has been chosen)

(c) - SMTP via SSL -

  Server host name: smtp.gmail.com
  Server TCP/IP port: 465
  SSL/TLS: via direct ssl connection
  Enable server certificate fingerprint tracking: unchecked
  SMTP Authentication: Login to the SMTP server using POP3
  username/password (the GMAIL-POP3-definition has been chosen)


> I guess you have a fixed IP or something better than the free SynDNS service (including MX records).

I have MX records with DynDNS as well, GMail does not care if I have a fixed IP address or not.  They do require a valid SMTP connection.


> I did not check with Gmail (as i have no account there) what happens, if you have a dynamic IP and a fantasy local mail domain name.

No problem.

> I tried it with web.de (a german provider) and they refused relaying - even if i authenticate correctly (i have a account there) - because the
> FROM was not that of my account there, but something like user1@fantasydomain.net (the account of my local mail server).

Are you sure you properly authenticated?  

Did you register the e-mail address you used for sending?  

What is the actual domain being used?  Is you IP address on any blacklists?

Be specific and use real data otherwise I'm simply guessing as to why it failed.

>
>
> > I have no idea about this server, I do know that Mercury has no
> > problems sending any message using any address the sender wants to
> > use with either MercuryC or MercuryE.
>
> I was asking if Mercury could be configured, so that dependent of the
> local user, it chooses a different relay server and if Mercury could
> rewrite the FROM in external send mail to something configurable for
> the fore mentioned relay (configurable for the local user).

No it cannot.

Thanks again Thomas.

Doing it client side is pretty slow.

Anyone know of  server side IMAP filter ?

Cheers

Thanks to everyone for the replies.

Joseph

Hey Rolf,

Thanks very much!

After i set the timeout to 200secs i got this message.

08:07:08.218: --- Tue Mar 23 08:07:08 2010 ---

08:07:08.265: Connect to 'smtp.isdsl.net', timeout 200.

08:07:09.343: >> 220 smtp05.isdsl.net ESMTP Exim 4.69 Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:06:55 +0200<cr><lf>
08:07:09.343: << EHLO domain.co.za<cr><lf>
08:07:09.453: >> 250-smtp05.isdsl.net Hello 196-210-49-162.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.49.162]<cr><lf>
08:07:09.453: >> 250-SIZE 104857600<cr><lf>
08:07:09.453: >> 250-8BITMIME<cr><lf>
08:07:09.453: >> 250-EXPN<cr><lf>
08:07:09.453: >> 250 HELP<cr><lf>
08:07:09.468: << MAIL FROM:<> SIZE=352<cr><lf>
08:07:09.546: >> 250 OK<cr><lf>
08:07:09.546: << RCPT TO:<user@gmail.com><cr><lf>
08:10:11.890: >> 550-Service unavailable; Recipient address [user@gmail.com] blocked using<cr><lf>
08:10:11.890: >> 550 sdom.bl.isdsl.net ; Access denied<cr><lf>
08:10:11.890: << QUIT<cr><lf>
08:10:11.000: >> 221 smtp05.isdsl.net closing connection<cr><lf>
08:10:11.000: --- Connection closed normally at Tue Mar 23 08:10:11 2010. ---
08:10:11.000:

i found this:

http://www.isdsl.net/smtp/rbl-dom-faq.html

Thank you for your help..contacting my ISP to see what the problem could be.

No.

Hi,

Ok, making a little ground on this.

When I remove the Spamhalter Local IP network IP's, (and I also shut off my Antivirus with mail scanning) I'm now getting some headers in some emails.  But, only for SOME LOCAL emails being sent. 

Appears all outside emails received via MarcuryD are not given headers.  These are the one that should be getting checked.

They are all received from my ISP's catch-all pop3 account.

If Spamhalter has been told to "whitelist" entries for an IP or domain name of incoming mail, where is this entry and how do I clear it?

Thanks,

Mark

>
> So , are you saying on a standard Comcast cable connection I can't possibly operate my own SMTP server with any degree of
> inboxing/success?

Since I have setup a number of these on Comcast I can tell you that you can successfully run a mail server on Comcast.  There though are some problems.

1.    You cannot receive via port 25 since this is blocked.  You can get a mail forwarder like MailHop Relay provided by DynDNS to forward the mail to a different port like 2525.  http://www.dyndns.com/services/mailhop/relay.html You can also use MercuryD to get your mail via POP3 from another mail service like Yahoo or Google.

2.    You cannot send via port 25 since even if it was opened by Comcast all the major systems will block the mail since the IP address is not a fixed address.

P.S./ SUGGESTION: You know, I have tried other mail servers such as

Hmail and those were easy to get up going fast.

Since they had fewer options and capabilities of course they were easier to setup.  ;-)