Mercury mail 4.7 - configuration in xampp 1.7.3

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Mercury mail 4.7 - configuration in xampp 1.7.3

Postby markflint » 09. August 2010 16:51

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
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Re: Mercury mail 4.7 - configuration in xampp 1.7.3

Postby WilliL » 09. August 2010 21:10

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
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Re: Mercury mail 4.7 - configuration in xampp 1.7.3

Postby markflint » 09. August 2010 21:43

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

(Cofiguration - Protcol modules - deactivate MercuryX)
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Re: Mercury mail 4.7 - configuration in xampp 1.7.3

Postby Berny40 » 13. August 2010 20:50

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
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Re: Mercury mail 4.7 - configuration in xampp 1.7.3

Postby markflint » 13. August 2010 23:53

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.
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Re: Mercury mail 4.7 - configuration in xampp 1.7.3

Postby apachelearnerken » 29. June 2013 01:56

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!
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