<p>The  main question is probably if your Internet provider allows you to use port 25 (SMTP) for external communication. Otherwise use MercuryC instead of MercuryE and relay outgoing mail though the ISP's server. Using non-default ports on a public server will not work, you will be the only one to know what port to use. </p><p>If you don't use MercuryX for scheduling anything it's better to disable it.</p><p>Binding to 127.0.0.1 only allows traffic from the server itself, so don't do that if you want to communicate with other computers. The IP interface field should in most cases be blank. It should never contain a domain name.</p><p>Please read Mercury help (or the PDF manual) about local domains.</p><p> </p><p> </p>

<p>Hey Guys, Here is where I'm at. I have a domain name from godaddy and lets just say it's xxyy.com. I have an A record named mail.xxyy.com pointing to my outside IP Address for my server. I then put that A record in for an MX Record as mail.xxyy.com and priority 1. I have DMZ Enabled on my local server, so ports should not be an issue. I then go into Mercury -> Configuration - Core Config - and internet name for this system is set as xxyy.com. Here are some screenshots.</p><p>http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h408/duddy111/core1.png</p><p>http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h408/duddy111/corelocaldomain.png </p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I then go to smtp server settings via configure -> MercuryS -> Announce myself as = xxyy.com (this is not my real domain name, just hypothetical)</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p><p>I then have my IP Interface set as 127.0.0.1. If I set it to anything else I notice the ports don't open up under the xamp launcher for mercury (I have changed the ports for pop3 to 6412 and smpt to 6411 because my ISP will probably block all of the default incoming ports.) Here is a  screenshot of the window.</p><p>http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h408/duddy111/smtp.png</p><p>http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h408/duddy111/pop3.png</p><p>http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h408/duddy111/smtpclient.png</p><p>http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h408/duddy111/pop3client.png</p><p>http://i1108.photobucket.com/albums/h408/duddy111/protocolmodules.png </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">When I try sending out a message right from mercury to a gmail account of myne, it goes through just fine on the smtp server window, but on the smtp client to client window, it says connecting to x.x.x.x (x being any number that google would use), and it eventually says using alternate, and never really get's to send a message. I am using google's dns servers. (8.8.8.8) </span></p><p> </p><p>Then I go to POP3 Server Confg via Configuration -> MercuryP -> and set my IP Interface to use as xxyy.com. Screenshots are above.</p><p>Please help me out guys, I have a feeling im close to getting this figured out. If you need a picture of my dns settings on godaddy, I will post those. But like I said I have mail.xxyy.com going to my server IP addy, and then mail.xxyy.com as mx record  of 1. </p><p> </p><p>Thanks guy. I appreciate it. </p><p> </p><p> </p>