Mercury eMail Server on XAMPP

[alimunth]

i am viewer number 66,666

-_- mohahahahaha

this videos userful 1000000%

[rodelbert1]

doe it work on wamp server?

[WindowsXV]

@Perspicuousasmud i have xampp and when i start it it doesnt open but when i stop it it shows and disappers. help? i trying to learn HTML

[algernon691]

Thank you so much for posting this video. Couldn't get it to work in Outlook but had to download Thunderbird. Finally got it to work. I learned much about how the email server works in the process. Thank you!

[riblah]

Brilliant. Really simple.

[raiderv8]

Warning: mail() [function.mail]: SMTP server response: 421 Service not available, closing channel. :(

[ZelexZ]

Can I make my email server Public ? Like people whom I privately know can Access their email like abc@abc.com. Can you help me ?

[elibo0n]

God Bless You Man.

[jphustman]

Thank you for making this a lot easier than what it seems :)

[MrTjbabe]

Thank you that helped

[davidjmcclelland]

Thanks jlochness that did the trick - most screens are outdated BTW, Perspicuousasmud but thanks it is close enough...

[AhoOo85]

Thx for the tip johnlochness got it working now

[NexxozProductions]

can u make a tutorial on how to do this for a real domain ?

[rizwaniali]

"

The connection to the server has failed. Account: '127.0.0.1', Server: '127.0.0.1', Protocol: SMTP, Port: 25, Secure(SSL): No, Socket Error: 10061, Error Number: 0x800CCC0E

"

The mercury is not sending email..the above message occurs

[starsgorki]

i just downloaded an installed XAMP and doesnt allow me to start mercury via control panel, why is that?

[willo0009]

Head...Wall...Bang, Head....wall....Bang.....I click `admin` and nothing happens??

[jagz420i]

Can u pleaseeee show me the php file please. I cna figure that outt it keep saying setup ur php.ini file please help me thanxx looking forward to ur response. Tc..

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

No offense, but this video is crap. You took two and a half minutes just to tell us to turn the server on. If we are that damn stupid then there is no real point, is there? Mercury mail is freaking horrible to set up. I havent gotten it to work once in three years. How about a precise explanation of every little setting, from original xampp installation? And please speak faster than my three year old can type.

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum Sorry... but its frustrating that the only remotely intelligent video I can find on the subject matter is grossly insufficient.

Why set up alternate users? You would think that the default admin, full-privileged account would work.

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum I didnt test it in an email client.

I instead tried sending email three times... once directly from mercury console, a second time from a PHP script, and then a third time from XAMPPs mercury mail page/form in the xampp folder.

All AFTER following your instructions. Failure each time. I did this to minimize the number of settings/programs that need to interact.

[Perspicuousasmud]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum demonstrating the principle young skywalker. Anyhoo, sounds like you're a hugely impatient chap, and therein often lies the problem. I've been in IT long enough to have principles of engagement and an important one for me is: assume nothing. That's why the video is a little pedantic, and I'm sorry you find it a little slow, but clearly you're not doing something right, as it's working for others.

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

@Perspicuousasmud Its not working for me. Maybe the fact that you (and others) have been in IT a long time. No doubt you take more for granted than you realize. Take me, I can turn a computer on. Thats about it. Now, can you make a video explaining how to set you the mail server? See, the problem is... if I understood anything you said, I wouldnt even need to ask. But you dont seem to recognize that.

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum You say that you dont assume anything, but that is not true. You assume quite a bit. You assume I have any idea what youre talking about as a computer person. Im not in IT, and if I was I wouldnt need your help. So dont talk to me like Im in IT, and dont talk to me like Im a five year old either.

You also assume quite a bit about the settings and configurations of the system. Because... well... it isnt working after all. Obviously you missed something in your set up vid

[johnlochness]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum Have you tried switching off MercuryX as per my posting above??

[CogitoErgoCogitoSum]

@johnlochness Did you read my posting when I said I followed your instructions verbatim? Asking the question is a waste of both our times. Why prolong my ignorance with the facade of inquiry about things you ought to already know?.. is it because you are equally ignorant, by chance?

[johnlochness]

@CogitoErgoCogitoSum Given that I have Mercury working perfectly and you haven't I can confirm it's just you.

[mfclock]

Thanks!

[Criztophe]

zzzzzzzzzz

[tpamungkas]

which version of mozilla thunderbird you used? i'm trying this with latest version of mozilla thunderbird, the interface in my latest version of mozilla thunderbird was so different, so i get confused. please tell me which version do you used in this video?

[JHBowden79]

Well done!

[JapanBagpipes]

this tutorial should be renamed as a thunderbird tutorial, wasted 10 minutes waiting for the xampp tutorial to start...

[wizzy9906]

Thanks, helped a bunch.

[ghprod1]

nice, i'll try it my localhost :d

[Castreal]

hi im having problems creating the account in thunderbird 3.1. there seems to be come config problems as thunderbird keeps "looking up configuration:trying out common server names" thus making me unable to create a account

[carlosvmurillo]

perfect explanation. Easy and clear. Thanks

[johnlochness]

This a great video, but I still couldn't get SMTP and POP3 to work. The problem was in Mercury 4.7 there is a bug with the MercuryX module which stops the POP3 and SMTP from starting. If you go into XAMPP >> POrt Check and ports 25 and 110 are free that's probably your problem. You need to switch MercuryX off. In Mercury go Configuration>>>Protocol Modules, un-tick Mercuryx and then restart Mercury.

Spent hours finding this out!!!

[jeropp00]

@johnlochness Thanks. Your solution helped.

It seems that this works combined with unticking 'Use name and password' at the Outgoing server (SMTP) Settings.

[joris172]

@johnlochness

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

've been looking for 2 days for a solution!

Many thanks!

[johnlochness]

@joris172 You're welcome. It took me the best part of a day to get it working

[deuist]

@johnlochness That fixed everything! I spent a long time trying to get mercury to work. All I had to do was unclick a box.

[W4RHED]

@johnlochness

word: had the same problem thanks man

[Kurataki]

@johnlochness thanks for the tip. this totally fixed my problem with my email client not getting a connection to the smtp and pop3 server.

[reykjavikingur]

@johnlochness Thanks for sharing that. I had exactly that problem, and your solution worked perfectly.

[VitaminCM]

Cool tutorial. I use XAMPP on my local machine to test things out before I implement them on my production web server.

Thanks,

Chris

[TheKev2612]

Hi, I'm running XP pro and the latest version of Thunderbird, and THIS DOES WORK. The first few times I tried to set it up, thunderbird seemed to have problems with the password and username and would not accept them. But, I did finally get it all working perfectly. Have been on tons of forums to try to solve this and am just glad I found how it was done. a good video with clear instructions. Good job Mate.

[TheKev2612]

Hi, I'm running XP pro and the latest version of Thunderbird, and THIS DOES WORK. The first few times I tried to set it up, thunderbird seemed to have problems with the password and username and would not accept them. But, I did finally get it all working perfectly. Have been on tons of forums to try to solve this and am just glad I found how it was done. a good video with clear instructions. Good job Mate.

[TheKev2612]

Hi, I'm running XP pro and the latest version of Thunderbird, and THIS DOES WORK. The first few times I tried to set it up, thunderbird seemed to have problems with the password and username and would not accept them. But, I did finally get it all working perfectly. Have been on tons of forums to try to solve this and am just glad I found how it was done. a good video with clear instructions. Good job Mate.

[TheKev2612]

Hi, I'm running XP pro and the latest version of Thunderbird, and THIS DOES WORK. The first few times I tried to set it up, thunderbird seemed to have problems with the password and username and would not accept them. But, I did finally get it all working perfectly. Have been on tons of forums to try to solve this and am just glad I found how it was done. a good video with clear instructions. Good job Mate.

[Nkatsikanis]

How can localhost be used as both smtp and pop3 at the sametime in mercury. Also how do I fix my dns transient name resolution errors

cheers

[garryfre]

Oh my god it did work after all! I needed to finish watching the video! Mybad!

[Perspicuousasmud]

@garryfre hehe, glad it worked out.

[garryfre]

Omg I take it back, It does work!! The deal is that it seems you got to set it up manually, and depending on things might have to set up security stuff.

[garryfre]

This does not work because the thunderbird here does not match the current version. I did this three times. Sadly this is yet another out-dated video that cannot work with Windows 7

[TheGolffinder]

Hi. this is greta gott me up and running, but could you tell me how i can also set it up so as i can send external mail , so developers can also test from outside localhost????

[84Tyr]

Hmmm... Video is too low so i can't see what are you writing:(( So i faild to set my mail...

Can you please write to me what you use (only for test1)

Thank you very much

[MircroCat]

Thanks a lot!

This was just the help I needed!

[KenEdwards14]

Great Video - thanks for this. I'm running Mercury on a local remote server at for example at IP address 123.123.123.123

Can I just change localhost to 123.123.123.123?

[SpawnZer0]

Excellent quality, I too thought that it was for live email... Perhaps make another that shows everyone how to do so.

[computertrick]

this works fine but how do i get it public not just local

[Jurkos7]

@computertrick You need domain name and domain name server... example com so your email would be info-example-com ....but be4 it will start working you'll have to redirect on your dns host... one direction is for web dn and other for e-mail...

[computertrick]

i got this message: We do not relay non local mail

[yourgam3]

i did everything you said/showed

but when i send an email to my hotmail account it doesnt work

[Perspicuousasmud]

Hi yourgam3, yeah that's what I would expect. I Probably didn't make it explicit enough. This demo shows how to test a localhost email server for sending and receiving emails to localhost email accounts, not to live email accounts.

The assumption is that it is for testing. Including live email adds an extra level of complication that simply isn't necessary for this purpose.

[yourgam3]

i am making a forum on my pc

and i need SMTP

i forwarded port 25 80 and 3306

and it doesnt work can you make another tut for making them work to all emails i really need

[Perspicuousasmud]

Are you running a live website from your home pc with people in the outside world accessing your computer? If you are, you shouldn't unless you know what you're doing.

If you're doing it for testing, then stick to localhost emails - it really isn't worth the hassle.

port 25 is for email, 80 for websites, 3306 mySQL

[yourgam3]

yeah i know those ports

but i need to use it for newsletters andso

i cant make it for all ppl on the forum so can you help me to make it like hotmail client orso

just something that worksd to all emails

[coolseka]

because he is on local host

[yourgam3]

yes i have a website on my localhost and dont wanna pay

so i use xampp but i want to have a email server that can send to external hosts

[sharpnova2]

i agree. this video doesn't help at all.

[tinbiscuite]

everytime i go to send from Outlook it has a message doesn't recognize dan@localhost any suggestions?

[paulybrowneyes]

Thanks for the great video! I couldn't get the Pegasus to work with Mercury, but Thunderbird worked nicely.

[FeralReason]

Great video. I followed through this in my setup and when I got to entering the incoming server in Thunderbird it gave me an error message saying: "Please enter a valid host name." Any idea why ?

[pcroyd]

Hi, This is a good video, i have followed it through step by step but i keep getting a error when trying to send/recieve emails - something about negative vides from the localhost - localhost responded: undefined is an unsupported domain?. any ideas?

[Perspicuousasmud]

"undefined" usually suggests you are passing a variable in php that has no value - perhaps you've not set the email address in the mail(). Without more details it's a little difficult to tell.

[karthiksharu]

Heyy man can you tell how do i do the same in fedora plzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzzzzzzz,,,

[chrisgrainger]

You sound like Jeremy Hardy

[Perspicuousasmud]

You think? If only I were as funny.

[Junije1]

lol

[Perspicuousasmud]

Thanks for the info bigpappatrader. I also have windows firewall, but it didn't cause any problem. It could be for all sorts of reasons, but it's worth bearing it in mind if the mail server refuses to work as you expect.

[bigpappatrader]

Excellent video, it did the trick. I'd just like to note that users might have trouble if they have windows firewall running. My connection from thunderbird to my local SMTP server (mercury mail, as you use in the video) was apparently refused by Windows firewall without telling me. Once I disabled it, the connection to localhost worked fine.

Thanks!

[basmagic]

which adres can i use from my isp? POP or SMTP?

[serdar1704]

just wanted to thankyou..i set up my first mercury mail server on vista..thanx dude

[adrenalinerider]

Finally the missing tutorial had been found !!!!! Thank you very much for this, it had the last bits of info, that I could not find anywhere else, to get my email server up and running on my XAMPP test server WOO HOO ...now I have a fully functioning test server, thanks again.

[stefsien]

And if I got a server that is not localhost but world wide, I shall just use my IP; or domain instead of localhost? Am I correct?

[Perspicuousasmud]

Most hosting companies will have already set up a mail program for you, all you need to do in your program code is call the appropriate functions like mail().

Does this answer your question?

[stefsien]

Ahh yeah, thanks! :D

[CaptainMack16]

How do you get your mail server set up so it can send mails to users that registers f.x.?

[sharpsey]

Hi Mark, thanks alot for this tutorial. I have been pulling my hair out trying to set up a PHP email script using mercury mail and you have just fixed it for me...cheers!

[chopin65]

How would I change the domain on Mercury?

[majuranus]

hello, how can i send a message to another pc in LAN and receive also?

[Perspicuousasmud]

hi Majuranus, "localhost" only works on the computer that hosts the web/mail server. If you want another pc in your network to connect, you need to access it via your local ip address which might be something like 192.168.0.2.

[majuranus]

thank you i will try it!

i only tried entering computer's name but it didn't work

[Jawz770]

Hey, great video! Does this work for sending external emails, because I already had Mercury working, however I cannot send emails to say a gmail address. Can anyone help?

[Perspicuousasmud]

If you're just using it for testing, then just create localhost email users. Keep it simple.