Hi all !

Following the criticism of Konrad Hammerer about Pegasus being so old fashioned that some users do not even want to try it, I think that making it skinable could reverse this trend. I have made this suggestion elsewhere, and I think some people here said it was a good idea. I hope David will take that into account in the rewriting of the MailStore engine. On top of that, it could give the community a more participative role.

Cheers !

Whiskyfizz.

Well, that's what I was trying to say: I don't think it's my PHP code because it used to work on a newer version of Mercury and now, when I downgraded, it doesn't anymore.

However, when I think about it, I also downgraded PHP, so I will have to see exactly what causes the problem. Although now I tend to think it's PHP who formats the addresses incorrectly.

Will test this tomorrow and let you know.

Thanks again for your help

Dear gurus

I've followed for uploading emails I have stored on my computer to my Gmail account. But I can't get it to work, even when I've carefully done exactly what the guide says I should do.

All my emails reside in Thunderbird (latest version). I've installed Mercury 4.7. I have verified (by looking in Mercury's subfolder Mail in Windows Explorer) that my Thunderbird messages have been "copied" into Mercury.

Following Ben's example, I created five "year" accounts (in both Thunderbird and Mercury) so that Gmail can POP3 in parallel from these accounts. I've made five corresponding POP3 connections in Gmail's settings and each such connection verifies when I create it. I have forwarded port 110 on my router to my local computer that Mercury is running on. When I do a send and receive from Thunderbird, it asks for the password for the relevant Mercury user. When I type it in, the password is accepted. However, I am unable to send any emails from my five Thunderbird accounts. Also, I cannot send messages from my ordinary Gmail account to any of the five Thunderbird accounts.

In Mercury's POP3 Server, I can see that Gmail is connecting regularly from the five POP3 connections because the relevant connection with the Gmail IP address blinks for a second in the POP3 Server window. But the Server window as well as the Gmail Settings page both say that no messages are fetched. I did manage on one occasion to upload 19 messages from one of the accounts but why no other messages were uploaded, I don't know. At this time, the other four connections were also active and verified.

In the posts on Ben's guide, it said that one could try using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost but that didn't have any effect.

Mercury has so many settings that I'm a little bit lost. But I've left everything as default upon installation. I installed all of the, I think they're called, modules. I'm using MercuryC instead of MercuryE and that appears to work because, as noted above, Gmail's connection attempts blink in the window. I've checked the logs but they only provide the same information that the POP3 Server window says, that is that a user X from IP so and so connected on date/time but that 0 messages were sent.

Thunderbird has been running when I've tried to fetch the mail. Not sure if that's a requirement since the mail is also in Mercury's folder but just in case I left Thunderbird on.

Has anybody tried to do this and could assist me?

Thank you

Philip

I did forget to create the user. Now, I don't get the error message anymore. Thanks.

I have defined groups in server2003 Active Directory users and Groups and made members.

Mercury/32 by default does not recognize groups other than Netware in the Netware mode.   There is a beta (alpha?) from Frank Fesevur <omega@fesevur.com> that does integrate Mercury to Windows AD but it's not been released to the public, you might ask him for a copy.  I have been testing testing this for some time and it does appear work with a windows workstation and groups.

In addition, Dameon Wagner, of the the Pegasus Mail and Mercury/32 beta testers, has created a daemon that can send to NT groups.

*   NTGroups is another tool that I wrote because of mailing list pleadings (see, writing to mailing lists does work ;-). It's a custom
    daemon for Mercury/32 that allows you to send mail to OS groups like those found in the various Windows OS's based on NT. Now supports
    receiving mail from external addresses.

http://myweb.absa.co.za/d.wagner/
 

Thomas, I finally found the error. 

All of the mails from Mercury/32 were regarded as Spam within googlemail. 

Why i do not fully understand. 

But at least Mercury worked ok. 

Thanks you again for your help. 

> Thomas - I am receiving the mail with Mercury D.  I am not sure that I understand your question with regard to delivery.  Typically what
> happens in the filtering process is that various rules are applied and eventually the mail is moved to a specified user, unless it is
> recognized as possible SPAM, in which case, after exiting the filtering rules, several Policies are applied.  Maybe that is what you
> refer to as "Filter that takes it out of the normal delivery process".

The "MOVE" functions takes it out of the normal deliver process and essentially deletes all the header adds.  Use a an alias to get the mail delivered to the proper user by core and the header add will work.

Only way I know is to munge the address of the delivery template.  Eother cange the path or the filname to something that doesn't exist, and it won't be sent.  I do it all the time - delivery receipts are no good.

Thanks for replying, Rolf

I sorted this out. When I checked the list of folders using Windows Explorer no folder existed named MPRG. However, if I tried to create a new folder and name it MPRG Windows Explorer displayed a notification that the folder already existed.

When I scanned through the list of files in the pmail directory, I saw a file named mprg. It had the 'unknown' standard icon (because there was no extension). When I opened this 'file' in notepad, I saw that it was in fact an email/Pegasus Mail folder dating from 2002! The subject of the email was mprgnewsletter. After renaming it to mprg.old I was able to create the folder from within Mercury.

The initial information at the top of the message was not the usual Pegasus Mail format but that used by Outlook (I think):

IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note

I have no idea how it got there. I have tested Outlook with the Pegasus Mail folders, but I tested it against my own account, and I did that last year. 

Still, I'm happy now :) 

Sending to non-local users is controlled by the settings in Configuration / Mercury SMTP Server / Connection control / Relaying control. The help text explains the different options quite clearly. It's of course important that the Local domains section in Core configuration has been filled in correctly as well, so please have a look at the help text for that too.

/Rolf 

I'm still not able to send mail but can receive it. I'm having TCP/IP

and Authentication error msgs?  Can anyone send screen shots of how the

SMPT and Authentication part of Thunderbird should be setup? I did

follow the instructions I received from another person but it still

isn't working. Too bad because I really like it...

See attached.  This is for T-Bird v3.0 but it should be the same for other versions as well.  The Username and password is one that is set in the Mercury/32 setup.

Thanks for the suggestions, DLN.  I have changed the cached connections in some installations that I have done, but not in the current one.  I'll try that.  I think that folders and mail witin folders is turned off, but I will check.

Thank you

Gordon

Everything Works!

I did as you said Rolf and now, I can use PHP applications to send mail.

Thank you very much everyone. You were a great help.

Thank you for your comments, Thomas.  I agree that the "From:" address is totally uncalled for.  It seems also to be rather ineffective, if it was meant to be some sort of advertising.  The message in question was for validation of a web-site registration, so I would have thought that it would have been important to be delivered without being rejected.  Anyway, messages with this characteristic seem to be rare, so it doesn't really matter too much.

Gordon

Same problem as exposed in . Please join!

JF

Of course it is necessary. My server uses IPs from different /24

subnets, and my PTR record is for another IP then the one which is

using for outgoing message.

But the outbound IP address from any server just needs to have a PTR record assigned, what's wrong with assigning a PTR record to the ones that access the internet?

To clarify what I'm talking about line from the log:

T 20091219 122703 4b2aaa5d MAIL FROM: <Debora@http://profiles.yahoo.com/blog/WBC44CAC7DTOFYBLCD7ASLJCOM>

I think I have found the solution: I had 'honour request for transcript generation' ticked. If the message requests a transcript the from-address leads to an error.

I've disabled it now and  Have to wait and see ...

Both thanks for the response and  support.

you are so right about the it guy -I am constantly getting projects - like the one I'm doing now which - is making me go from xp to win 7 then adjusting everything around it - like pulling sales from stores - and after this I'll be off to other things

but maybe it is an excuse - I really like win 7 and office 2010

[quote user="tinkertron"]

Sorry, I should have been more detail in my question, wasn't sure what to ask for. So here it goes:

 I'm running a personal home server for my job. I will be hosting a phpgrid database. I will be hosting that along with a forum, and some contact forms.[/quote]

So presumably you already have a domain name & a static ip address.

You should add an MX record pointing at yourdonain.name (simplest option)

OR add an A record for mail.yourdoman.name pointing at your IP address THEN add an MX record for yourdomain.name pointing at mail.yourdomain.name

[quote]I heard about setting up forms in a manner that would keep webcrawlers "spammers" out from pulling my email address through my site, and that I would need a personal stmp and to program a php form to work with my mail server.[/quote]

You will need the MercS SMTP server module to receive mail via SMTP from your php script, any other local clients, & the outside world. Read carefully the help on Relaying Controls when setting the options for this module.

You will also need an SMTP client module to deliver mail offsite, either MercC for use with your ISP's (or another) SMTP relay (simplest method), or MercE for direct delivery to the target server (more control & also more potential issues)

[quote]I also want to create accounts for my officers, and maybe one or two personal accounts, for members. I hope this answer any question you might have. But if you need more, please ask away! 

On the Configuration menu, start at the top with the Core module config and work your way down.

There is a Help button on each page giving all the info you should need.

Come back and ask if there is something you can't figure out. [:)]

Kept fooling around with this and found a website that validates SPF records.  ( if anyone needs it)  Looks like my SPF record is valid, so evidently that is not why Hotmail is blocking me.

As a work around, I thought I'd add a transaction filter for hotmail RCPT users. I use the F (FAIL) action command, with a 554 response and a message to the hotmail user that I am unable to reply. Works great, other than the fact that Hotmail does not show the user the error message. Why am I not surprised?

I was wondering, though, is there a way to specify when the 554 response is sent? I'd rather send it after the DATA command, so that at least the email is in my logs and I can go read it.

Thanks!