Well that was easy!! Thanks heaps, Im sending and recieving now. Very much appreciated, Good to see a fellow South Islander to, unless your Christchurch England LOL
Hi, I am hosting my website from home using Uniform Server inconjunction with ZoneEdit for the nameservers along with a dns updater program as i refuse to pay for a static ip from my isp. I have www.mydomain.co.nz and mydomain.co.nz and mail.mydomain.co.nz all set on ZoneEdit. Now i have installed Mercury and Pegasus but for the life of me can not get it configured right. Thru Pegasus when checking for new mail i alway get this error msg
--- Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:10:41 ---
Connect to 'mail.mydomain.nz' port 110, timeout 15.
16:10:42.411 15: Peer connect failure (the host has refused the connection).
now i have read and read but learning from others post seems beyond me sorry and i would be in awe of anyone that could help me. BTW i just used mydomain as example LOL but i guess you would guess that. Ok i have discover that i can recieve mail but its to admin@ not glenn@ hmmm??
Ok domain is ez-pc.co.nz , i have ez-pc.co.nz, www.ez-pc.co.nz and mail.ez-pc.co.nz all pointing to my ip address thru ZoneEdit.com i have set up MX record on ZoneEdit too. I see the mail being processed in Mercury but it doesnot make it to my email program ( Pegasus) It was working for a while last night but only admin@ was then it stopped with a report saying no user. I use a DNS Updater program that checks and renews the IP address to ZoneEdit if there is a change to the IP address. Any other info need just tell me. Oh and i have portforwared ports 80,25 and 110. - Perhaps i should of checked first apparently even tho 110 is portforwarded thru modem it appears to be closed, must be a ISP thing.
More info about your setup is required.
How do you get your mail?
1 MercuryS - direct SMTP delivery?
2 MercuryD - POP from your ISP box?
Are you connecting to your MercuryP from inside or outside your LAN?
If from inside, you will need to use the local address of your server NOT the public address (unless you have a local DNS server to resolve it properly).
Your port 110 is open, I just connected to it. You don't need this open to the world unless you are POP-ing mail FROM YOUR MERCURY from an outside CLIENT (i.e. you don't need it open to get mail from your ISP server)
Have you set up users in Mercury?
How do you want it to work?
Ok, jeez was wondering who that was that connected LOL, anyways to answer your questions..
How do you get your mail?
1 MercuryS - direct SMTP delivery?
2 MercuryD - POP from your ISP box?
Currently im using MercuryS
Im not sure what to use, all i am wanting is to use the email name glenn@ which will be on my website for contacting me. And for me to send from glenn@ to anyone.
I have Mercury on the same PC as my Web Server and Pegasus email clent.
OK.
You need mercuryS to receive via SMTP and port 25 forwarded (which you have)
You will need a means of sending mail.
I would suggest mercuryC to send via your ISP smarthost because as you are on a dynamic IP, many servers will reject a direct connection using mercuryE.
You need to set the 'Local Domains' section of the Core Config with an entry for ez-pc.co.nz (and any other domains that are relevant)
You need to set up users (in Mercury - Config menu - Manage users) for each address you want to receive mail for.
You have mercuryP to access your mail from a POP3 client (Pegasus). You should turn off your port 110 forward, unless you want to POP your mail from elsewhere, but this is a security risk for password guessing attacks.
You need to tell Pegasus to get mail from 127.0.0.1 (not ez-pc.co.nz).
I would also suggest reading the manual, (RTFM [6]) (esp. the Anti relaying section of the mercS module) as running a mail server is not trivial, and if you have some settings wrong you will very quickly start spewing spam and getting on a lot of blacklists.
Awesom thanks for the help, will get on to implementing that now. RTFM LOL yeah i know, but i find it alot easier when told by someone. Specific questions generaly get specific answerd LOL
