RE: Multiple Remote Pop Boxes question by gnet2k 1

[vesselescape]

Re: GNet2k

We use Mercury as well. Have multiple isp based email accounts, and Mercury will poll all accounts in whatever order and timeframe you specify. Mail can be routed in a number of ways.

Example:

Pop Boxes on

http://www.mydomain.com

default@mydomain.com
help@mydomain.com
info@mydomain.com

Pop Box on anotherdomain.com

ourcompany@anotherdomain.com

Local Users

user1
user2
user3
help
main

Routing
Remote pop boxes polled by mercury every 30 seconds.
All mail not adderessed to specific box on

http://www.mydomin.com

(ie: info@mydomain.com or help@mydomain.com) is routed to the default@mydomain.com pop box by the isp's mailserver. (eg: user1@mydomain.com)
After retreiving remote mail, Mercury examines to: fields and routes mail to local boxes if it finds them. (eg: user1@mydomain.com) Unknown addresses are routed to "main" user mail box for sorting by designated party. Mail to "help" is routed to "user2" (using alias "help@mydomain.com = user2@mydomain.com) Mail to "user3" is routed to local mailbox and forwarded to user3@iamonvacation.com as well.
All mail address to ourcompany@anotherdomain.com is routed to "main"

All local mail is routed to appropriate user by Mercury. All outbound mail is delivered to the smtp server at

http://www.mydomain.com

for delivery.

Only took about one hour to set up and configure Mercury on a win2k network. Using Pegasus mail as a client. They were written to work together, and we have been using Pegasus for about 6 years now.

Mercury should probably be run as a service under win2k. It does not write to the registry, so if you do not like the way it works, removal has mininum impact on the network.

 

[gnet2k]

Thanks for your help. But as of the moment we're using WinME. I'll try your suggestion and get back to you if I was able to configure it right. Thanks again.

 

[gnet2k]

vesselescape

in core configuration, general tab, internet name for this system - is asking for a domain name. what if our website is being hosted by someone else or we dont have a domain name, what am i going to fill this with?

thanks

 

[vesselescape]

gnet2k...

Mercury is looking for a defined address for the local machine that the Mercury Server lives on. It can be an ip address (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) an internet/network address (mynetwork.com or

http://www.mynetwork.com)

or a combination.

Where your website lives, and/or what your email address is in the outside world does not matter. Mercury needs to know what its local address is so it can define what is and is not local mail. A quote from the Mercury FAQ:
"Solution: You almost certainly have an incomplete or inaccurate Local Domains page your Core Module configuration dialog. You must list in your [Domains] section every possible Internet name by which your file server could be addressed. Mercury uses the [Domains] section to determine whether mail is local or remote: if you omit a possible name for your server then Mercury will not know that the mail is local and will refer it back to the smart host, which in turn will send it back to Mercury... and so on."


If I remember, the help file shipped with Mercury (hit the help button in the General Tab core module) gives most of the options, syntax, and suggestions for most situations). I am not at the office, so most of my documentation is not available to me until later this afternoon. In the meanwhile, here are two install guides you may wish to check out:

http://kbase.pmail.gen.nz/viewfull.cfm?ObjectID=C1523317-4EC6-11D4-8B6B0008C709E5EC

(Installing Mercury and Pegasus in a non Netware enviroment)

http://www.nimrais.freeserve.co.uk/mercury/merindex.html

(Another installation guide)

 

[Breiser]

I am just getting into mercury and you mentioned exactly what we were trying to do. I'm getting a bunch of kick-backs due to people sending mail to sam@myweb.com, david@myweb.com, etc; due to those people no longer working there or whatever. how can I make it send
[any unknown]@myweb.com to say, boss@myweb.com?
I know it's probably right in front of my nose, blaming it on sleep deprivation
Thanks for any help given