I have now checked out MercuryX and I can send/receive mail without restarting the server everytime. 

 

I'm also surprised that I'm the only one with that weird connection control window. Perhaps it will display correctly if I do a reinstall of Mercury but it works well for now, so I would rather just wait for Mercury V4.73 instead if bothering with the hassle of reinstallation.

 

Anyway, thanks for the help, everyone!

Dilberts,

I did try the IMAP route, and that did not work for me either.  After thinking about it will any messages processed with IMAP even be checked with Spamwall as they do not go through the normal Mercury Core processor?

Also, the only way I could get this to work for all my users is to create the same IMAP YESSPAM and NOSPAM account in all their outlook accounts.

 I believe my problem is my install somehow.  I can configure all the spamhalter settings in Mercury, but when Ilook at the headers in my messages, I'm not seeing the X-SPAMWALL lines.

All my setup (daemon.ini and spamhalter.ini) seems to be fine. 

I'll post another thread on this.

Thanks,

MP 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I can't imagine why the XAMPP team would distribute Mercury without including the manual, that seems a very poor decision. Anyway, just download Mercury 4.72 from the download section on this site and install it as an update. It won't change any settings but you will get any missing files that should have been part of the installation, including the manual. The WinHelp file needs to be downloaded from Microsoft, though.

/Rolf 

Hi thanks for helping,

 

I use the newest version 4.72.

I install it as a new installation and not in update mode.

The special thing is, I use a mailvirusscan tool between mercury and the internet.

 mercury sent or get all mails from g-data mailsecurity....

 This works normaly correctly. This software is for companys/enterprises........

  I run an tool named  TCP optimizer....

today we get 38 mails in one poll cycle, and I hope that i dont get the failure message again.

 

But why only 30 seconds displays in the log ????

 

 

with session 0 , u mean the console session ?

then i would prefer , start , execute "mstsc -console" for that , as vnc lags like hell ... 

I use RoundCube .3 Stable, with Mercury 4.72  and have had no issues.  

It connects and sends mail through Mercury (IMAP, SMTP),  I also use the new Plug-ins to allow password changes, using the POPPass module.  

Round Cube does require some additional infrastructure to run, a SQL Server, HTTP Server with PHP, I think 5 or above, and I use ASpell for spell checking

I use both SquirrelMail and Round Cube, I like Roudcube, but find it runs a little slower then Squirrelmail on my system.  So if I have to move or work with lots of mail, I fall back to Squirrelmail.  

 My Configuration

Windows 2003 IIS 6

MySQL 5.1.28

PHP 5.2

https, with self-signed certs 

 

 

If there has been connection problems there can be old files left in the queue and scratch directories. Usually it won't make any difference for Mercury, but it can still be a good idea to clean it up.

If this is a home network it shouldn't be too difficult to find a suitable time when there are no jobs in queue to shut down Mercury for a minute and remove junk files.

The scratch directory is used by Mercury for temporary work files and is by default in your main Mercury directory. If you are running a recent version there will be sub-directories for each module - if so keep the sub-directories but remove any files in them.

/Rolf

Indeed, if you're filtering in one place only, it should be the router, but if you're worried and want defence in depth (which is Mark's position) you can filter on the machine as well. Then if you've misconfigured your filtering and left a hole, there's a backstop. But, as pointed out, if you misconfigure it you also have twice as many possibilities for stopping it transporting mail.

[quote user="Rolf Lindby"]

It's very difficult to guess without having any real data at all to go on. But if you haven't done so already, search the forum for Xampp to read about the most common configuration errors in that package. Then check that the relevant ports have been forwarded from the router to the server.

Outlook can be used with both POP3 and IMAP protocols, so it's up to you what you prefer. 

/Rolf 

[/quote]

Couple days ago I was in the Internet and noticed there an unusual software - . I downloaded it and astonished reason of the program decided my problem for a minute and totally free of charge as far as I remembered. 

 

[quote user="Thomas R. Stephenson"]

Good host however does not answer when I telnet into port 25 of this host.  

> I installed Pegasus 4.51 on my PC at home and configured to receive
> and send emails using my server placed in Internet.

Check with you ISP to ensure that they are not blocking port 25 inbound.  Many of them are now blocking port 25 both ways now.

 

[/quote]

You gave me a clue with this port 25 so I started thinking about it. I changed default port for SMTP to 587 on Mercury plus I made NAT on router public_ip:587-->private_IP:587. Then I configured clients Pegasus/Outlook to use 587.
I was thinking about your 25 and blocking and .... I had a brainwave. How the hell whole WORLD except me can know that I changed port to 587 when default is 25.
I changed port from 25 to different because I read many ISP are blocking port 25 so I thought I will use non-standard and thanks to this I will still have communication through INTERNET.

As I said - I had to use port 25!!!!!! I changed NAT on router public_ip:25-->private_IP:587 and ALL IS WORKING.

Thank you all for your ideas and help.
Best Regards,
Adam

PS. If somebody understand how mailing stuff is working than it is right Mercury is very easy to configure!!


@Thomas: How can I get similar answer like yours:
Answer Section:
    quari.pl, A, 83.142.117.13
    quari.pl, MX, 10, quari.pl
    quari.pl, NS, ns11.az.pl
    quari.pl, NS, ns10.az.pl
"

I found a solution that works:

 

I'm running the Mercury and XAMPP on a windows-machine. I don't know why, but the mail-function of php don't work correct on xampp v. 1.7.2.

The function added always <> to the senderaddress and sometimes to the receiveraddress.

I activate the sendmail-function under xampp and all messages will be send correctly to mercury. Sender and receiver-addresses come in

into the mercury with the right format.

Is your issue related to the one in the following thread?

 http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/18427.aspx

I've seen a recent post to the effect that 4.73 should be out shortly and will fix that problem.

Looks like someone has forgotten to include the square bracket at the end of the email address. If the email address start with a square bracket it *must* also end with a square bracket.

Sven

 

Incoming messages will be handled by MercuryS, the SMTP server module. You will need one of the SMTP client modules, MercuryE or MercuryC, if you want to be able to send out messages through Mercury. If it's only for receiving from the Lotus Notes client both those modules can be disabled.

/Rolf

 

Thanks. I have Posadis running now. The documentation I was using confused me regarding what the "listen" configuration was looking for - ie, interfaces to listen on - I thought it was about packet source.

Thanks once again. I solved it half way.

I had a lot of invalid email addresses that didn't exist, I removed them and that helped. Now it takes around an hour, approximately. 750 members.

Hi, i need send and email to all my customers because i do changes in antispam software and i need explain it.

For this I recommend using the PMail mail merge function.  It's a bit difficult to setup the data file with the users email addresses and names but after this is done you can send personalized messages to all of the users without being seen as a spammer.  ;-)

 

For now a good setup is all I need to have. For my programming I shouldn't need to know the internals of Mercury. A simple PHP-script should be enough to handle the mail when the configuration is right.

The problem is getting the SMTP host setup correctly is critical.  The PHP part is a no brainer, you are simply sending a message via SMTP to port 25 of MercuryS.  You can turn on session logging in MercuryS to see if it's properly received.  

The problem is 99.99% of the time you do not have a fixed IP address and you cannot send mail using MercuryE since it will be bounced or simply deleted as spam by the receiving system.  You need to setup MercuryC to do the sending. 

If you would search on XAMPP in this forum you will see many many answers describing the problem and the process.

Time I don't have at the moment since I have to deliver the result of the final-asignment for my PHP course soon. 

It's not really our job to tell you how to do your course work. ;-)

OK - it seems that the global filter is working (didn't have those spoofed messages this morning) - thanks for the excellent help. My syntax follows:

 

Attributes

Originates from non-local source

Logical AND operator 

 
Regular Expression

Message-ID: *tfs.pvt.k12.ga.us*

Headers only 

Move to user

@\\myserver\users\username\pmail 

 

Hi,

Check the permission on that file, I have had Mercury32 do some really weird things similar to this (not saving changes) and I think its permissions.

Marke sure you have full permission on that new file.

=D

Mark