Mercury MTS and Outlook XP on same PC

[gatvol]

Can someone give me a hand with my Mercury/32/outlook XP problem. The scenario is this: I have a single PC with many users. The OS is XP Home Edition and internet connection is via dialup. Sending and receiving mail from Outlook XP via my ISP works fine, the only problem is that every user has to dialup. So I installed Mercury/32. The config of the SMTP and POP3 clients was a breeze - I am able to send mail from within Mercury (File | Send Mail Message) to my ISP and get it back again (I can trace messages from the mercury\queue folder all the way to the ISP and back into the Mercury\mail\user folder) BUT I can't establish comms between Mercury and Outlook XP. I have installed both the POP3 and the SMTP server but am unsure of the config, especially re IP address - when my users send/receive between Outlook and Mercury there is no outside connection (it's all on one PC) so what do I put in there ? The default is 0.0.0.0. I also tried localhost but Mercury reverts to the default. And then there is the setup on the outlook side. I have created new accounts that point to Mercury instead of the ISP but am unsure of what to put in the POP3 and SMTP fields. Obviously these fields must somehow correspond to something in Mercury, e.g. pop3.mercury ... ?? Or am I sadly mistaken ? Another thing that bothers me is that the "Test Account Settings" button doesn't work. It requires a network connection and is too stupid to realize that I am pointing it to a server on the same machine. Or maybe I'm not ... ??? Any advice welcome
Rgds

 

[ianicr]

I would've thought the pop3 and smtp would be 127.0.0.1 as this is the localhost address. The Test Account Settings should work with this too. If not try testing your pop server with:

telnet 127.0.0.1 110
Some Mercury/32 POP3 banner
user yourusername
pass yourpassword
quit

I've set up mercury on a Win2k server and used the 127.0.0.1 in Outlook 2000 can't see XP being that different but who knows...

 

[kainite]

I run in this mode - no problems - what I have is a static IP addres set on the machine running mercury (i.e. on the local net card - no need for static IP from the ISP) so that the other machines will always be able to find it (dynamic IP would need some sort of name server) - then in all clients (including the one on same machine as mercury) use the static IP as the POP3/SMTP server in Outlook