Mercury Mail Running as a service on NT4.0

[David A. Uhen]

I've installed Mercury on NT4.0 as a service and the POP3 server is
working fine. I've also got the SMTP and POP3 Clients to work with my
local ISP. I can send and receive external mail as long as the Mercury
GUI is up and running. I can see the polls occuring as scheduled and
mail being transferred in and out. My problem is that when I log off of
NT the client apps seem to halt while the POP3 server is unaffected. If
I log back on and bring up the Mercury GUI the pending polls happen
immediately and the mail is transferred. Any suggestions on how I can
keep the Clients running while logged off of NT?

[David Kocmoud]

David A. Uhen <d...@uhen.com> wrote in message
news:3829AE52...@uhen.com...

Mercury/32 was never written to be run as a service in the first place. So
we don't officially support it in that mode. Something to consider for a
future release.

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[Jan Muszynski]

[This followup was posted to comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows and a copy
was sent to the cited author.]

In article <3829AE52...@uhen.com>, on Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:41:38 -
0600, David A. Uhen (d...@uhen.com) says...

> I've installed Mercury on NT4.0 as a service and the POP3 server is
> working fine. I've also got the SMTP and POP3 Clients to work with my
> local ISP. I can send and receive external mail as long as the Mercury
> GUI is up and running. I can see the polls occuring as scheduled and
> mail being transferred in and out. My problem is that when I log off of
> NT the client apps seem to halt while the POP3 server is unaffected. If
> I log back on and bring up the Mercury GUI the pending polls happen
> immediately and the mail is transferred. Any suggestions on how I can
> keep the Clients running while logged off of NT?

I heard that if you're running as a service you want to specify all the
pathnames as drive:directory rather than in UNC format since the service
starts before the network.

See http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9910C&L=Mercury&P=R161

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