The Mercury service can be installed with the instm32s.exe program, which can be found in the Mercury directory. Once installed with appropriate settings there are several ways to control it in Windows 2008 Server. You can use the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in for services, you can use traditional command line commands (net start <nameofservice>, net stop <nameofservice>) or the resource kit sc.exe command line utility, and presumably the new PowerShell scripts as well. Google around a bit if you need more info. The newer versions of Web tools for Mercury has controls for it as well. 

/Rolf 

I tried to start Mercury mail 4.7 included in the current upload of XAMPP and there were 2 problems.  First I noticed that when I ran Port-Check that ports 25 and 110 were free and I could not find any way to set those ports.   I assume that this means that it won't work (because when I tested mercury on an XP machine the ports were automatically set). 

The second thing that I noticed was that if I set mercury as a service that the admin program didn't work at all.  Does mercury not work on Windows server2008?

David

[quote user="Davife"] The second thing that I noticed was that if I set mercury as a service that the admin program didn't work at all.  Does mercury not work on Windows server2008?[/quote]

Sure Mercury works natively on w2k8, but either as a native service without GUI, or as a native Windows Forms Application.

you can also see the GUI in 2008. Read this post:

http://community.pmail.com/forums/thread/23194.aspx

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the feedback.  Since I don't have a lot of OS expertise, I need a little more guidance.  How do I start it as a native service outside of the XAMPP control panel?

Regards,

David