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Using Mercury on Windows 98 LAN

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by blinkr

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I haven't found much info on setting up Mercury Mail Transport Systeem on a Windows 98 pier-to-pier LAN. I would like to know how difficult it is to set it up to download email from several POP3 accounts using a Windows 98 workstation with dial-up access? I would need to have mailboxes or accounts or etc. on the Mercury PC to download the POP3 accounts to & allow individuals to send internal email to these same accounts. SMTP is not as important as having outside email collected. But it will dothis nicely from what I have read about Mercury.
Can someone give me a few pointers and/or gotcha's with setting up this sort of configuration with Mercury? Thanks!

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It has been a while, since I set up Mercury (on a NT server), but I remember it being staight-forward and I did not encounter an mayor problems. You can set it up to either work as a POP3 server for all your internal clients or even just use the file-sharing options if you use Pegasus Mail. Both options work fine.

If you use Pegasus, you can start it from a network-share (or have the data-storage pointing to one) so that every user cann access their mail from ANY workstation.

Setting up the collection within Mercury is easy and you can use rules to forward the received mail to specific users.

If you don't use Pegasus with a shared directory you will have to set up SMTP on Mercury for the internal users to be able to send mail to the Internet. Just make sure that the Reply-To is set to their respective external address.

If you use the same address for more than one user, make sure that the name is included in that Reply-To. You can filter that name using Mercury.

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