<P>A Mercury/32 Daemon is a plug-in module that extends the functionality of the system. Daemons are wired into Mercury's internal infrastructure at the lowest levels and have enormous power - using a Daemon, you can:</P> <UL> <LI>Turn specific e-mail addresses on your server into automated mail processing engines <LI>Gain the opportunity to process every message that passes through your queue <LI>Add entirely new functions to the Mercury environment <LI>Extend existing protocol modules, by adding, changing or suppressing their commands <LI>Add completely new protocol layers to the program <LI>... and much more. </LI></UL> <P>Mercury makes a huge range of internal functions and data structures available to Daemons, all of which are documented in detail with working code samples in this kit.</P> <P>To develop Daemons, you will need this kit, a programming environment (Microsoft Visual C++ and Borland C++ are explicitly supported, while other environments such as Delphi can be used with some effort), and some basic experience in writing Windows programs in C or C++.</P>