Mercury Mail Transport System

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Mercury Mail Transport

Mercury Mail Transport 4.62
Developer(s) David Harris
Stable release 4.62 / 2008-07-03; 12 months ago
Operating system Microsoft Windows
Type E-mail Server
License Donationware
Website http://www.pmail.com/

Mercury Mail Transport System (Mercury MTS) is a standards compliant donationware (was freeware prior to January 2007) mail server developed by David Harris, who also develops the Pegasus Mail client.

Mercury exists in two versions, one written as a Win32, alias Mercury/32, application designed to run on Microsoft Windows 98, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003 or Windows Server 2008 (XP or Server 2003 are recommended). The other version is written as a set of NetWare Loadable Modules designed to run on Novell NetWare 3.x, 4.x, 5.x or 6.x file servers. Both versions have similar feature sets, and both have special support for Novell NetWare local area networks - the Win32 version can act as a mail server for either NetWare or non-NetWare LANs.

Mercury is a fully independent mail server and can provide email services to all standards compliant email clients, such as Eudora or Microsoft Outlook. Both versions of Mercury are highly modular, allowing you to install support for differing mixes of Internet protocols as required. Mercury can also be installed tightly integrated with Pegasus Mail. The combination of Pegasus/Mercury is similar to the mail aspects of Microsoft Outlook/Microsoft Exchange Server.

The latest version is 4.62, released on 3rd of July 2008 [1].

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[edit] Features

Mercury is extremely standards-compliant, supporting all major Internet mail-related protocols as f.ex. SMTP, POP3 and IMAP. The Win32 version has special features designed for use in dialup environments. Both versions are extremely feature rich, with especially powerful support for managed mailing lists. Mercury is intended to be largely unobtrusive and needs little ongoing maintenance.

[edit] Protocols supported

  • SMTP (server, relay-based client and full end-to-end delivery client)
  • POP3 (server and distributing client)
  • IMAP4rev1 (with multiple simultaneous access to the same mailbox)
  • PH (server, for directory lookups)
  • Finger (server, for directory lookups)
  • PopPass (server, for remote password changing)
  • HTTP (server, for web-based mailing list management)
  • SSL (Secure sockets layer) on SMTP, POP3 and IMAP servers

[edit] Extensions

Mercury/32 can be extended by anyone, as the development documentation is free and publicly available at the pmail community. Below are some well known extensions, some are bundled with Mercury/32.

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