Can someone please, please help me? I am mystified by this problem. I started Mercury from the Xampp control panel. Tried to send a message which failed. Now the XAMPP control panel says Mercury is running and when I click on START to switch it to STOP, nothing happens. I looked at the files and noticed there is a mercury_start.bat but no mercury_stop.bat file. Should there be a mercuy_stop.bat file, and would this missing file cause this problem?
Also, the mercury.ini file is empty.
This problem happened once before, but only after Mercury worked for a while. I deleted XAMPP and reinstalled it with all of the files. Now it has happened again, but this time, almost immediately. By the way, I am running XAMPP on XP Home Edition with Norton Internet Security with a router. I have to disable Norton in order to use PHPMySql, and I tried this with Mercury but to no avail.
I did not have a chance to back up any files, yet, so I'm not sure if files are actually missing or corrupted. Do I need to download XAMPP again, and is there something I can do to prevent this problem? I am using Apache as a local testing server, and need to test my email scripts that use the php mail() function, and I think I need Mercury for this. I'm a website designer, not IP person, so I don't understand too much of this.