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> how do i configure mercury? what is mercury mail's default server name? im really lost with this. and what kind of authentication should
> i use?? thanks in advance
Go to Mercury/32 and open Configuration | Mercury core and look at what you have entered for "Internet name for this system" Normally you would enter that. You can also just enter the IP address of the system running Mercury/32.
David Harris has implemented ESMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 for MercuryS. It does a SMTP authentication in accordance with RFCs 2554 and 2195. It will also do the LOGIN and the strange MS AUTH=LOGIN.
In this case look at what you have set in Configuration | MercuryS | Connection control. It should be using SMTP authorization and is so there will be a file with the authorized file name. In the case of incoming mail though the authentication is not really required, it's only used to ensure that you are not relaying mail off the server to other servers.