Pegasus Mail & Mercury

i have postmaster as the username of postmaster under the general of mercury core module. do i need to change this to my name?

Yes, it must be a valid user name.

i have postmaster listed as a local user, i also have Admin and bruce as users defined for the system. I tried each one of them in the username of postmaster box and get the same error.

The postmaster address is built in, so there shouldn't be a user account with that name. Change in mercury.ini to:

postmaster:    admin    # NetWare UIC of postmaster

Then please try again after restarting Mercury.

/Rolf

i have postmaster listed as a local user, i also have Admin and Bruce as users defined for the system. I tried each one of them in the username of postmaster box and get the same error.

Two things.

1.  Show us the C:\XAMPP\MERCURYMAIL\MAIL\pmail.usr file

2.  Change the [Domains] section to remove the localhost as server name, that is change this

[Domains]
;server name: domain name
localhost: localhost
localhost: [127.0.0.1]
localhost: [66.66.45.90]
localhost: upinsmoke.bounceme.net
localhost: fmm.no-ip.org

To this

[Domains]
;server name: domain name
server: localhost
server: [127.0.0.1]
server: [66.66.45.90]
server: upinsmoke.bounceme.net
server: fmm.no-ip.org

I am also sending a couple of test messages to your system.

 

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The MAIL FROM is invalid.

You have a "display name" field that shouldn't be there.

Also an extra set of <>.

The MAIL FROM is invalid.

You have a "display name" field that shouldn't be there.

Also an extra set of <>.

When did he show a session log?

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

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He didn't.

But if you squint just right you can make it out in the MercS window in the screenshot

He didn't.

But if you squint just right you can make it out in the MercS window in the screenshot

Well how about that, I had to zoom in to make this out.  ;-)

 

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Thomas R. Stephenson
San Jose, California
Member of Pegasus Mail Support Team

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dilberts_left_nut:

The MAIL FROM is invalid.

You have a "display name" field that shouldn't be there.

Also an extra set of <>.

I think this is my problem. The display name is the forums name (not sure i can remove it without having a blank named forum) also i set the email to postmaster@upinsmoke.bounceme.net and it adds the <> into the email before mercury gets it. i dont see that when i put the email in my forums. I got your test emails stephenson. Sorry about the screenshot being so small(had to keep file size small to get it into the forum post).

There is either something wrong with the forum scripts or with your settings for it.

The "display name" is for the From: address in the message body but is is NOT allowed in the MAIL FROM: address in the SMTP envelope.

Ok here is a screenshot of the forum settings

here is another

thanks alot for all your help. I posted on the SMF (my forum software) website the same day i started this thread. Still nothing from them. Anywhere else i post they blame mercury and suggest i change mail program. I like mercury, its simple and does exactly what i want it to do. I had SMF and mercury working well together for yrs.

You are probably better to ask the SMF developers or forum.

EDIT: 

Turn on session logging in MercS to capture the transaction, so you can show them what it is doing wrong.

I would expect any other mail server to reject the invalid MAIL FROM as well.

I suspect it is just a simple error in the SMTP script, calling the wrong 'From' variable.