Adding Mercury

[godspeed27]

One more thing...is WAMP a bad option for this. Not sure if it has Mercury as I am taking a class and I have to use this, well don't have to but its recommended

[canopy]

The bad news: Both your file contents are different from mine ...

The good news: Both your files are different from mine in exactly the same place. At least that gives me a lead. Might need more log files to do the troubleshooting.

Will run some more tests and keep you posted.

[canopy]

Don't think there's a mail server bundled with WAMP...

Depending on which version of WAMP you are using, you need to make sure the Apache, MySQL and PHP versions are compatible with Zen Cart.

[godspeed27]

ok, well it looks like you know where the problem is or a start, I will just hold out until you find more, thanks for the hard work.

[craigthetechnophob]

I have the same book by Goh which I would be lost without I never realised there was so much involved. Al was ging well and I was starting to think it was going to be easy then I got stuck at page 41.
I think the problem was that I was trying to use the 'Username' 'Personal Name' and 'password' from page 389 as instructed in the book. Mercury won't accept the usernames though as it wont except usernames over 16 characters long so I left off the @example.com parts of the usernames and they all added fine. I hope this helps.

Quick caution note. I am now stuck on page 45 my thunderbird email accounts added won't work keep getting mail.example server 'username or password incorrect'. Not being a PC expert I am don't know what the problem is, the lines I have followed are so far are: was it because I shortened the username in mercury (which I doubt). Or was it the Configuring Mercury on page 38.Told to Edit /MercuryMail/Mercury.INI with:

myname example.com # Canonical name for this server
and add:
example.com : example.com
But:

There are two mercury.INI files in Mercury mail with almost identical coding in.

I have tried just changing one, then just the other and then both. I still cant send an email in thunderbird from any of my test accounts to the others.

Any help anyone?

Thank you.

[craigthetechnophob]

Being new I didn't know I could post a quick reply, apologies. Godspeed 27 and Canopy re: adding users to mercury I have added a reply post #15 of this thread that may help, and a problem of my own. thanks

[canopy]

Hi Craig, sorry for the errors in the book, I have posted fixes for them on the Book Support Site.

For the .ini files, you should only edit MERCURY.INI and not MERCURY_EXAMPLE.INI.

I see nothing wrong with your configuration so far. But maybe you can check the local domain you have configured is similar to that on pg 37. You may have to restart your PC for the changes to take effect.

Try it and let me know. If that still doesn't help, can you let me know your Windows OS version?

[craigthetechnophob]

Thank you canopy for your quick reply. I will try your suggestions and look at the book support site.

As for the book no apologies needed now I know what is involved I can't believe I even contemplated doing it without the book, I wouldn't have stood a chance. I think it will encourage alot of people like me who are not PC experts to have a go, which is great but will probably mean alot of question answering for you.

I will keep my questions to this thread as requested and apologise for the double post here 15&16 I thought that the quick reply option would insert a post directly beneath the post I selected it from.

[craigthetechnophob]

Hi Canopy

I have made sure only the Mercury.INI file is the one edited.
I have checked that my C:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts has the correct lines added as page 37(it has).
My test email on page 38 goes OK.
Actually everything appears Ok until I try to add local users to Thunderbird at the end when asked to add password I get:
'sending the password did not succeed. Mail server mail.example.com responded:Username or password incorrect'

I have noticed that I can only use www.example.com in my browser www.localhost.com isn't working and my OS is windows XP version 2002 if that is any help.

Thank you for your time.

Craig

[canopy]

Try this:

In your Thunderbird program, look up the Account Settings for the mail user with the login problem. You can do this with a right-click on the account and then choosing Properties from the context menu.

Under Server Settings, make sure the User Name field does not have a domain. For example, it should read storekeeper instead of [email protected].

PS: "www.localhost.com" won't work, only "localhost" or "www.example.com" will work.