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I upgraded xampp to 1.7.3 but now Mercury SMTP is not connecting to localhost. In Thunderbird the message I get is:
"The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server localhost failed".

If I use the port-check utility it reports for Mercury SMTP that port 25 is free.

I went back to my previous version of Mercury (4.6) and it works fine. Port-check reveals that mercury.exe is using port 25 as expected.

So how do I get Mercury 4.7 to connect to port 25 for SMTP. (POP is not connecting on port 110 either in Mercury 4.7, but it is in v4.6)?

Thanks,
Mark Flint

On my configuration Mercury wouldn't work if module X is installed. I don't know why. (tested by telnet 127.0.0.1 25)
Have a try and switch it off

Well done WilliL, that's done the trick. Thanks!

(Cofiguration - Protcol modules - deactivate MercuryX)

Thanks a lot guys ! Mercury 4.7 would not work after upgrading from 4.01, but with this trick it started working again. Took me 2 hours searching the web before seing this post, very useful...

Thanks Again

Yeah, I would flag it up with the apachefriends but I can't find anywhere to directly leave comments/feedback other than a forum post. It's not their software but I bet this has stumped a few that installed it with xampp 1.7.3.

Thanks for this information! In Mercury 4.7 'Admin' window: Configuration, Protocol modules..., (uncheck)MercuryX connection and process scheduler. I unchecked box and everything worked in the path: my php page on local apache server to Mercury Mail server to Thunderbird. I spent many hours trying to figure out why neither mail() function used on apache
server or Thunderbird could connect to Mercury Mail SMTP server via port 25 - kept on getting error. Now all works perfectly. Xampp 'status' page now lists 'SMTP service' as 'activated'. I am still going to look into why MercuryX module caused this problem for me. Thanks again!