You need to set up a primary MX record in your domain's zone file at no-ip.
Looks like this:
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yourdomain.com. 14400 IN A 111.111.111.111
yourdomain.com. 14400 IN MX 0 your.servername.com.
The 0 can also be 10 or any other low number.
A secondary MX record would have a higher number than the lowest number for your primary MX record.
So if you use 0 for the primary you would use 10 for your secondary.
It is just to make the primary and secondary distinguishable.
Note the
. after yourdomain.com and the
. after your.servername.com these are critical and must not be omitted as your zone file will not work else.
You will need to use your.servername.com in Mercury mail as the same as your MX record. Makes sense as your IP will be tied to both.
You may also need an alias for your mail server like this:
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mail 14400 IN A 111.111.111.111
Subsitute 111.111.111.111 with your own IP.
This will allow you to use mail.yourdomain.com in your e-mail client.
This is optional as you can use just yourdomain.com in your e-mail client as long as you have an MX record with your dns provider.
I use zoneedit.com for my DNS and I can set up my MX records in the supplied zoneedit control panel. I am assuming that no-ip has a control panel also.
That should take care of the DNS finding your instance of Mercury. Now you need help to set up Mercury.
I found this a while back and copy/pasted it to a text file on my PC. Here it is for you if it helps. I don't use Mercury so have no idea if it works. If anyone knows any problems with this tut or can add/improve it please feel free to do so.
Edit: There is a very good MurcuryMail Help file in Windows Help format in the xampp/mercurymail directory called
mercury.hlp. This is as good as any help manual I have seen for a free product.
Good Luck!