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Express
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 Posted: Thu 30 Jan '14 5:45 Post subject: Any good how to guides for Mercury? |
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I have been using hMailServer for a long time, the last time I tried to configure Mercury I saw the logs displaying evidence it was relaying spam like nobody's business.
I want to run that 'standard mail server'. I have a domain name, I just want to run a proper mail system with a piece of software thats (or at least looks) better than hMail.
Regards.
P.S: What is Apache Tomcat - in brief? |
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James Blond
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| Posted: Thu 30 Jan '14 17:31 Post subject: Re: Any good how to guides for Mercury? |
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| Express wrote: |
P.S: What is Apache Tomcat - in brief? |
Apache Tomcat is an open source software implementation of the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages technologies. |
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Steffen
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| Posted: Thu 30 Jan '14 22:57 Post subject: |
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Apache Lounge uses already for years Surgemail from http://netwinsite.com/surgemail/ . Has tons of (nowadays) options and a nice Webmail.
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glsmith
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| what ever happened to googling? |
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Express
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| Finally come back to further consider my decision of possibly changing, but I'm trying to convince myself that something like Surgemail is worth it, if I could get Mercury working properly I'd be happy with that too. |
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gijs
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I've been using mercury as well, and it was also sending out a lot of spam...
It appears to act like an open SMTP relay server.
Anyway I noticed that mercury hasn't been updated in a while and I now use smartermail (which is free if you want to create less than 10 mailboxes) and I'm very happy with it. |
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sambache
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| Posted: Wed 09 Apr '14 21:11 Post subject: |
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Hi Express
| Express wrote: | | Finally come back to further consider my decision of possibly changing, but I'm trying to convince myself that something like Surgemail is worth it, if I could get Mercury working properly I'd be happy with that too. |
you want to setup Mercury as your mailserver ?
I have used it for years without any problem. What information are you excatly looking for ?
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Express
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| Posted: Tue 06 May '14 16:35 Post subject: |
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sambache,
The last time I tried to set up Mercury Mail it was being used an open mail relay server for spam mail.
I caught it through the logs, but I just don't 100% follow or understand exactly how to configure everything in the control panel, my current experience is that hMailServer is a lot easier. |
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sambache
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| Posted: Tue 06 May '14 18:33 Post subject: |
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Hi express,
if you are happy with hmail go for it. If one day you like to try Mercury again, let me know.
Johannes |
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Express
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| Posted: Wed 07 May '14 3:37 Post subject: |
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The opportunity to use Mercury would be preferred, and now is the time to set it up if any as I don't yet have any mail server configured at all.
I'm inclined to learn how to use it and set it up properly since that is what is provided with XAMPP... |
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