<p>>  Thank you, I can made it work now, and Happy New Year.</p><p>How was the problem solved? </p>

Now I can send mail from Mercury to external,Mercury to Mercury (local),but I can't send from external to Mercury. I open only Module MercuryP,S,E. Need I to configure more to receive mail from external?

<p>>  Now I can send mail from Mercury to external,Mercury to Mercury (local),but I can't send from external to Mercury. >  I open only Module MercuryP,S,E. Need I to configure more to receive mail from external?</p><p>That's generally enough when you have a fixed IP address, registered host name and MX records.  Post a copy of your mercury.ini file for analysis.</p><p> </p>

<p>OK this is my MERCURY.INI</p><p>I copied only [General] [Protocols] [Mecury] [MercuryE] [MercuryS] [MercuryP] [Domains] [Maiser]</p><p>#  MERCURY.INI generated by Mercury Setup # # #  Sample Bindery Mode MERCURY.INI file (in fact, the one I use on #  my production server). This one implements most of the possible #  switches for each module, but you can edit it to do less if you #  wish. All the fields shown below are described in the file #  MGUIDE.HLP which is supplied in the Mercury archive. # #  Anything after a '#' to the end of the line is a comment and #  is stripped out before parsing. Trailing and leading whitespace #  is also stripped before parsing. Many sample commands have been #  left in this file commented out for reference purposes. # [General] myname:          localhost    # Canonical name for this server timezone:        +0700    # Time Zone to add to date fields file_api:        1    # Use the file api instead of queues mailqueue:       \XAMPP\MERCURYMAIL\QUEUE    # Where mail should be put for delivery smtpqueue:       \XAMPP\MERCURYMAIL\QUEUE    # Where the SMTP client should look for mail newmail_path:    \XAMPP\MERCURYMAIL\MAIL\~N    # Where to find the users' WinPMail mailboxes. [Protocols] MERCURYS.DLL MERCURYP.DLL MERCURYE.DLL # MERCURYC.DLL # MERCURYD.DLL # MERCURYH.DLL # MERCURYF.DLL # MERCURYW.DLL # MERCURYX.DLL # MERCURYI.DLL # MERCURYB.DLL [Mercury] failfile:      \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\FAILURE.MER    # Delivery failure notification template confirmfile:   \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\CONFIRM.MER    # Delivery confirmation template aliasfile:     \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\ALIAS.MER    # System-wide alias file synfile:       \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\SYNONYM.MER    # User synonym database listfile:      \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\LISTS.MER    # List of lists logwidth:      30    # Width of address fields in logfile retpath:       1    # Do/Don't use 'return-path' for errors maxhops:       30    # Used to detect mailing loops gullible:      0    # If NZ, don't validate 'From' fields bitnethost:    cunyvm.cuny.edu    # Relay host for '.bitnet' rewrites poll:          10   # Seconds between queue polling cycles scratch:       \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Scratch    # Where we can write temp files returnlines:   15    # How many lines of failed messages to return postmaster:    Admin    # NetWare UIC of postmaster broadcast:     0    # Yes, we want broadcast notifications, but receipts:      0    # ... no broadcasts for receipt confirmations PM_notify:     1    # Do/Don't send errors to the postmaster change_owner:  0    # Change message ownership to recipient auto_tzone:    1    # If NZ, obtain timezone information from OS LogLevel:      15    # System message reporting level LogMax:        100    # Maximum number of system messages to store RetryPeriod:   10    # Period between job retries (minutes) MaxRetries:    16    # Maximum number of times a job can fail TwoPasses:     1    # If NZ, process submission queue in 2 passes Autoaddress:   0    # If NZ, auto-generate user addresses based on name Daily_exit:    0    # If NZ, auto-restart each day after maintenance No_Areply:     0    # If NZ, disable automatic replies system-wide Alt_Forward:   0    # If NZ, allow alternate forwarding specification Maint_hour:    2    # Hour for daily maintenance (24-hour clock) Maint_min:     0    # Minute for daily maintenance Retry_Mode:    0    # If NZ, use progressive backoff for queue retries Local_DSNs:    1    # If NZ generate Delivery Status for local users only DSN_time1:     10800    # Seconds deferred before first DSN is sent DSN_time2:     86400    # Seconds deferred before second DSN is sent DSN_time3:     259200    # Seconds deferred before third DSN is sent Host_in_title: 0    # If NZ, show hostname in system tray and taskbar Lingering:     0    # Enable or disable 'lingering mailboxes' Linger_Timeout: 60   # Seconds before a lingering mailbox is shut down Alert_Host:    notify.pmail.com    # Host to check for licensee advisories Alert_Interval: 720   # Frequency in minutes (min 240) for checks Alert_Flags:   3    # Flags controlling advisory checks </p><p>[MercuryE] HELO :*********            <-- My Domain Poll : 15 Timeout : 60 Log_Verbose : 0 DNS_Timeout : 20 DNS_Retries : 4 Transcripts : 1 MaxThreads : 10 </p><p>[MercuryS] Debug : 1 HELO : ****                 <-- My Domain Logfile : \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Logs\MERCURYS.LOG Timeout : 30 Relay : 1 Strict_Relay : 0 Interface : 127.0.0.1 Allow_Illegals : 0 SMTP_Authentication : 0 Compliance_Settings : 0 Maximum_Failed_Rcpts : 4 Max_Relay_Attempts : 4 SSL_Mode : 0 ST_Blacklisting : 288 No_VRFY : 0 SMTP_ConnFlags : 0 [MercuryP] Scratch : \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury Stack : 32768 Interface : 127.0.0.1 Mark_Read : 1 SSL_Mode : 0 Login_Disabled : 0 UIDL_nul_list : 1 New_UIDs : 0 No_NUL_passwords : 1 Timeout : 60 </p><p>[Domains] localhost: localhost localhost: localhost.net localhost: localhost.org localhost: localhost.com localhost: ********               <--- My Domain</p><p> [Maiser] Maiser:          Maiser   # 'Username' of mail server account Helpfile:        \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\MAISER.HLP   # Help sent on failed maiser requests Lookupfile:      \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\MAISER.LKP   # Format file for the 'lookup' command Send_dir:        \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\SENDABLE   # Directory for the 'send' command Logfile:         \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Logs\MAISER.LOG   # Mail server log file Notify:          \xampp\MERCURYMAIL\Mercury\TMP   # Dir. for pending 'notify' commands NoList:          N   # If 'Y', disable the 'list' command Local_only:      Y   # If 'Y', local 'notify' commands only </p>

<p>> OK this is my MERCURY.INI</p><p>Not very useful at all since you blocked out the host name. </p>

<p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">// Interface : 127.0.0.1</span> </p><p>If you restrict Mercury modules to only communicate using the loopback interface you aren't likely to receive anything from anywhere else...</p><p>Is your server really called localhost? Do you own the domains you have listed? </p><p>Did you read the help texts in Mercury or the manual? They are well written and informative, and highly recommended reading for anyone trying to understand how a mail server works.</p><p>/Rolf </p><p> </p>

<p>Then, what do I need to configure to make it works. I've really own the domain and I'm using DNS Service. </p>

<p>I'm not sure we understand each other. Do you own the domains <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">localhost.net, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">localhost.org, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">localhost.com that are listed in your mercury.ini?</span></p><p>As for "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">********" there is, as you can imagine, no way for us to find out if it the DNS setup works or not.</span></p><p>Did you change the interface settings? You should at least read Mercury help for local domains settings as well.</p><p>/Rolf </p>

<p>Now, I've deleted all domains I don't own.(localhost.com...) and I've just test at http://www.mxtoolbox.com/ with command smtp:124.157.132.221 (124.157.132.221 is my dynamic IP) and I got <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_UpdatePanel1"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_stHistoryPane2_lblResultStream"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_stHistoryPane2_StResultBlob1_lblResultText" style="font-size: 16pt;"></span></span></span></p><p>[quote] <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_UpdatePanel1"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_stHistoryPane2_lblResultStream"><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_stHistoryPane2_StResultBlob1_lblResultText" style="font-size: 16pt;">No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 124.157.132.221:25</span> <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_stHistoryPane2_StResultBlob1_lblResultTextSmall">Banner was No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 124.157.132.221:25 <Transcript Not Available></span></span></span>[/quote] </p><p>what does it mean?? </p>

<p>Well, it means that it's not possible to connect to port 25 on your server from the Internet. There could be a number of reasons for it:</p><p>- Your Internet provider blocks port 25</p><p>- You didn't forward port 25 from your DSL router/firewall to the server</p><p>- There is some firewall software blocking port 25 on the server</p><p>- You still haven't removed "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 12px; ">Interface : 127.0.0.1" in MercuryS settings in mercury.ini</span></p><p>Note as well that a reverse lookup on the IP address returns "adsl-pool-124.157.132-221.dynamic.tttmaxnet.com", and quite many mail servers will refuse to communicate with addresses that can be assumed to be dynamically assigned.</p><p>/Rolf </p>

Thank you, I can made it work now, and Happy New Year.