Thanks very much Thomas, it worked a treat.

M

It seems to be an error generated directly by mercury.

The message headers indicate:

From: postmaster@[203.26.##.##]

To: admin@[203.26.##.##] 

The attached message has failed delivery and has been referred
to you as postmaster. The following error report or reports
were given to explain the problem:

   *** 
   Error connecting to primary server '210.9.177.134'.
   556 Too many invalid recipient requests. Closing connection.

This is Mercury/32 message back to you reporting it could not deliver the message and the error message sent by the mail.universalmagazines.com.au server.  

 Now if there were only one RCPT TO: in this particular message then I suspect that they are storing the IP addresses of the connecting hosts that send to 

a lot of invalid addresses.

Thank you, Thomas.

It was a filter. The original address does not exist on our system and a filter is used to move the message with that address in the To: and Cc: fields to 'user'.

So, each time Mercury/32 encountered it, the filtering rule kicked in.

Man, another one! D'oh! Thanks a lot for your help.

Cheers!

Your ISP is validating the MAIL FROM domain (as many do) and it can't find it.

Hi Thomas,

Thanks a lot for your always quick and good

response. After editing the hierarch.pm including removing of the

Unavailable entries my mail folders in Pmail are clean. Also the

removing of the caching folders caused no problems.

regards

Where is the test.sh file located? Try adding that directory to the PATH variable for the system, or use full path when calling it.

/Rolf 

[quote user="lieven23"] If I want to run Mercury it loads for a second then it closes  [/quote]

Locate Mercury.Ini, and remark the modules loaded, so that only the core loads. Try then to start Mercury. Mercury should not close itself immediately unless something is interfering and telling Mercury to close.

Doesn't look good, I'm afraid. With invalid entries for local user, default user and postmaster there is no place for MercuryD to deliver the mail so it will not be saved - just as you probably already realized. I hope all the messages were spam...

By the way, with a correct local account entered as local user there is no need for a default user in MercuryD as everything will be delivered to the local user anyhow.

/Rolf 

Hi,

  I kept fiddling and it seems that, despite there were no real configuration issues, MercuryC wouldn't work while the end-to-end client worked like a charm from the first unconfigured start. Odd but... it's fine to me for now :)

Thanks for pointing me out that there are actually TWO distinct smtp client daemons in Mercury.

 - Andrea

I have news from my Zencart store . Have send en email and changed the FROM area to admin@african...

and I got a message that it send the mail :-) ,however he was not received in my real email account

Was it received via MercuryS? What did the mercuryS log show?

Did Mercury core process the message?  What did the system log show?

Was it received in a Mercury/32 account?  

Was it processed by MercuryE?  What did the log show?  What did the session log show?

You might activate the "Pause" option in the window when examining the window contents.

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]

where within Mercury I ammend these settings so that it makes use of spamhaus and spamcop?

Configuration | MercuryS |  Spam control  Here's my blacklist configuration file that I use that you can copy to Notepad (or any other ASCII editor) and save to the Mercury directory to see how this is done.  You can use tagging for awhile ( I watched for a couple of months) like I did for each list until I was sure there were no false positives.  If you use tagging you can use a Mercury/32 filter to move these messages to a spam user account.  I created the user "blacklist" and filtered mail with the tags to that user.

-------------------------------------------------- MS_SPAM.MER  ------------------------------------

# Mercury/32 SMTP server block query definitions data file.
# Mercury/32 Mail Transport System, Copyright 1993-2006, David Harris.

Begin
Name: SpamHaus-Zen
Enabled: Y
QueryType: Blacklist
QueryForm: Address
Hostname: zen.spamhaus.org
Strictness: Range 127.0.0.2 - 127.0.0.8
Action: Reject
Parameter: Blocked by SpamHaus.org See http://spamhaus.org for removal instructions
End

Begin
Name: PSBL
Enabled: Y
QueryType: Blacklist
QueryForm: Address
Hostname: psbl.surriel.com
Strictness: Normal
Action: Reject
Parameter: X-Blocked: by PSBL See http://psbl.surriel.com for removal instructions
End

Begin
Name: SpamCop
Enabled: Y
QueryType: Blacklist
QueryForm: Address
Hostname: bl.spamcop.net
Strictness: Normal
Action: Reject
Parameter: Spam blocked see: http://spamcop.net/bl.shtml?
End

Begin
Name: SpamHaus Zen PBL
Enabled: Y
QueryType: Blacklist
QueryForm: Address
Hostname: zen.spamhaus.org
Strictness: Range 127.0.0.10 - 127.0.0.11
Action: Reject
Parameter: X-Blocked:  by SpamHaus.org PBL See http://spamhaus.org for removal instructions
End

---------------------------------------------------- cut here ------------------------------------------------------------------------

[/quote]

Just out of curiosity why do you use normal strictness for the Spamcop and PSBL lists and ranges for spamhaus?

Another question : Where are the Emails, polled by MercuryD stored and

in which format ? While testing I remarked that my Emails were received

on the WHS but I couldn't find where they were stored in the meantime.

While the mail is being downloaded by MercuryD it goes to the scratch directory.  It you are simply using the local username in the "Local user" field then it put into the local users account using that username. If you leave the local user field blank or use a user@domain.com address it is passed to core for processing.  Mail is stored in RFC 2822 format in a *.CNM file in the users local mail directory.

FWIW, have you installed the  MercuryP (POP3) or MercuryI (IMAP4) hosts so that Outlook has something to talk to?

It works :-)

Great, thanks for all.

Since you can connect with telnet and can't with MercuryE you need to check your firewall to find out why Mercury/32 is being blocked.

[quote user="Rolf Lindby"]

There is a post on QCF flags in the Knowledgebase .

/Rolf
 

[/quote]

Yes, I've seen that (long ago).  I don't recall if I ever made sense of the "ST" example:

Example: R 020528160331 12 000032 000030 000001
The R says this is a

retry, the next string is a date, time line,tells you when it will next

be processed. 2005 March 7 09:58:32 . The next one is the number of

tries, 3. The structure is critical, the data can be all zeros.

 Except for the "R", the explanation doesn't seem to match the example.

OK.. but this would allow me to move messages to specific folder based on criteria I chose ??

Probably, I really do not know any more than what David has stated in this forum.

Any idea when we may see this ?

 Absolutely none.  I work around this in Pegasus Mail by filtering to directories and then having the user attach the directories via "Add mailbox to list".  Same thing could be done by filtering to a username and having the IMAP4 user mount the other user via IMAP.

yep - trust no one (brother)

errhhh - time to sleep

Acording to RFC 2049 appendix B, pt 7 and 8, it clearly states that to be MIME conformant, the BNF must be preceeded by CRLF, as part of the BNF itself.

That said, Mercury could possibly be made more "tolerant" in this respect.

Thanks to you all for the assistance. I got back on to the mail host this morning who told me I just needed to reboot the machine, when I explained that hadn't work, with a little reluctance he went away to check on the thing. In the end the file at his end had become corrupted with two funky characters in one of the headers. It is now fixed and I've got several thousand spam mails to compete with... I'm not so sure fixing it was that great now... lol

Thanks again