POP3 Mail Serve

[human1987]

Eh.. I am trying this out only.
I just can't get my mail server running.
I cannot retrieve email and send email. that's my problem.
i am using Mercury Mail System Server by Pagesus.
I cannot determine my POP3 address and SMTP address, thus not able to retrieve nor send emails.

[pointd]

You set MercuryD to download mail from your ISP using the same settings as you use in your email client. You then set your email client to download the mail from the MercuryP module.

SMTP is slightly different. If you are using the MercuryC module then the address will be the same as your mail client. If you are using MercuryE this will perform full end to end SMTP mail delivery and no server address is required.

[human1987]

Er.. I don't get you.
Would you mind giving me the steps for the Server side and the steps for the Client side?

[pointd]

Ok - This is presuming you are using Mercury to collect email from a standard POP3 account.

Go into Configuration | MercuryD POP3 Client and click on the Add button near the bottom. In the screen that opens fill in the POP3 host (this will be the POP server at your Internet Service Provider) and your username and password. Mercury now has enough info to download your mail for you.

The default config for the MercuryP POP3 Server should be fine.

You now need to setup your email client to collect mail from Mercury. To do this enter the IP address of the machine running Mercury into the Servers section of your email client.

To configure Mercury to send mail on your behalf then you need to choose either the MercuryE or MercuryC module.

MercuryE will deliver mail directly to the recipient but works much better with an always on connection to the Internet. All you have to fill in is the "Announce myself as" section.

MercuryC simply sends mail to a relay, in this case this would be the SMTP server at your ISP.

The MercuryS module is used if people are delivering mail directly to your mail server and the defaults will work fine.

The above are the absolute basics. Many more options are available to secure Mercury and protect from spam. If you are unfamiliar with this type of product I suggest you configure all this to use test accounts until you are sure you have got it working as you expect. Mercury is a good, stable mail server and setting up is not that difficult. The inbuilt help is useful and a few minutes spent reading this can provide results.

If you are still struggling then you will have to provide more details about the modules you are trying to use, what the problems are and specifically what you are trying to achieve.

[human1987]

I still can't get my Client to connect to the Server for mails.
This is the error i encounter.
(The SMTP or POP3 host to which you are attempting to connect (202.156.168.149) has returned a response which is not valid according to the protocol in use.

This problem may indicate that the server uses a later or earlier protocol revision which is not compatible with Pegasus Mail, that the server is not the right type of server or is misconfigured, or that there may be a network error of some kind.)
I think it is my configuration which causes it.

[pointd]

Without more details I can't be sure but it looks as though you are trying to collect mail from somewhere other than your Mercury server.

Double check all the IP addresses in use. If your mail server has address 192.168.0.4 then this is what you should enter in your email client.

Bear in mind that if your mail server is attached to the outside world then you will use different addresses internally than you would if you were trying to connect externally.

[human1987]

I guess i have problem with the IP address. If i enter my LAN address, it works. But if i enter my real internet address, it won't work.

[pointd]

This is normal. I would expect to have to use an internal address from the LAN and a different address from the outside world.