How: create your own E-Mail SMTP

It is often necessary or desirable to operate of your own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server to send E-mail.

This may be necessary if no this service provides your ISP or the employer. Some e-Mail programs and monitoring require system or other software SMTP to send messages and alerts, and have your own SMTP server to the take place. Level of difficulty: Medium difficult

Instructions

You need: ComputerMercury mail transport software things (free download) access to your router

Defining your own SMTP server

1

SMTP works with TCP port 25.

Make sure that this port of your Internet connection is open. Consult the instructions for programming your router to learn how this port on the machine to transfer, the mail server software runs.

You should also ensure that your ISP allows traffic on port 25. If you are unsure, you can use a free tool from portforward.com to verify whether this port is open. Run this tool after the necessary changes in your own router.

2

Download and install the mercury mail server.

Several questions are required that you install the program. Of your network and your connection SSI a complete knowledge, you must answer these questions correctly.

All the more important you question the client SMTP "Relay" or "End to-End" must install. The answer lies in the services provided by your Internet service provider. If your ISP has a SMTP server, you can the cl installieren.Obdachlosigkeit "Relay". (In the most)(cases, if you have one from your ISP SMTP server available you install your own E-mail server n.)

If each serve or it your requirements not met, you need to install client "End to End". This client is not required to use our ISP e-Mail Yserveur. Instead it looks for the address of the recipient's e-Mail Server and delivers any message directly to that server.

3

Mercury configuration when you use the relay client is easy.

There are a lot of parameters, you can change, but you will likely not many changes for easy installation.

Your settings "Host" is the most important in the relay client Setup program parameters. This is the SMTP server provided by your Internet service provider. Must address, port number (typically port 25) and optionally a user name and password.

The client side is easier to configure. But in both cases, there are a few additional settings that you need, to put in place. The menu "Help" of mercury and community online to help you consult if you get stuck.

4

After you configure mercury, you are ready to test.

From the menu "File" "Generate test messages." Enter your e-Mail address to the address type "test" in the subject line, and press "OK". The system sends you a message test with the subject line and message body text from various sources, including books in the public domain will contain much. If you receive this message, you have correctly configured the client.

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"e-Mail program (Outlook, Outlook Express, Pegasus Mail, etc.) and implemented mercury as""outgoing mail" server. Only the computer name or IP address as the host, and you're done. Test and see dialogs of mercury as your message passes through the system and the Internet.

Course, if you can perform complex installation of mercury, mercury are all features including the receipt of the e-Mail messaging server and distribute to multiple users), you might make a configuration, before you use it to send mail. But if you have described an installation database like this, you must be a Rdéjà go.