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I created a few test accounts on Mercury (using the XAMPP Control Panel). I configured corresponding POP accounts on Thunderbird (2.0.0.14).

Since this Thunderbird email client is my normal client for sending email, I simply kept (reused) the external SMTP server configuration (my ISP's).

Now, when I try to send email from one internal (example.com) account to another, I get the following error:

An error occurred while sending mail. The mail server responded: 5.1.2 Bad destination system: webmaster@example.com. Please check the message recipients and try again.

What does this problem mean and how I fix it?

Is it possible that for testing Mercury accounts, I need to use Mercury's SMTP?

Thanks!

OK - I solved the problem

All I had to do was add another SMTP server to Thunderbird, this time pointing to mail.example.com, then select for each example account this newly added server as its SMTP.

Works like a charm. This Thunderbird thing is amazing in its flexibility.