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Mercury/32
Mercury/32

Mercury/32 is a Windows mail server with special support for the Novell NetWare environment. The program consists of multiple modules that can be activated depending on your needs. Mercury/32 comes ...

Average of 4 user ratings: 5


  • Jul 16, 2006
  • For version:
  • 4.01a

quote  The best all purpose workgroup mail server.  quote

  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

After more than 7 years i still use Mercury mail server. As a private consultant, i recommend it. It is a perfect solution for small and medium networks. Easily works for 20 to 300 users. Easy to install (it usually takes 90 seconds, measured) to have a mail server working. I have made more the 30 installations all working. No per user cost, completely compatible SMTP/POP3, works with standard antivirus. FULL MAIL CONTROL, mail-in mail-out control, strict relay control makes a relay proof mail server. No WEB mail yet, but everything else works perfect. The best is the simplicity, process windows ideal for learning purposes, and backup/restore is so simple as to copy a directory. Full server restore in under 3 minutes. Works with windows 95-up. And works from Pentium 166/64 MB. As i mentioned this is for a personal - workgroup solution. In this scenario I did not find problems yet.

user Review by: MiguelSanchezBardet
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  • Dec 28, 2005
  • For version:
  • 4.01a

quote  Excellent for small business or relay server  quote

  • Interface: 2
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 3
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 4

We have used Mercury/32 as our SMTP, POP and IMAP for 5 years in our small business. Many companies run Mercury in Novell mode. Merc/32 has never failed us and you can't get better than that. The Mercury mailing lists are very helpful and the filtering is excellent in Mercury. On the downside, the usernames do not integrate into Windows which is a pain and the daemon functionality is largely unused, largely due to a lack of documentation on writing daemons. If you understand the basics of a mail server, don't mind circa 1990's style dialog boxes or vague options path and and you want an industrial strength mail server then Mercury is it. IMPORTANT ! All the Mercury/32 config settings are all in mercury.ini so if things go terribly wrong, fixing it is much easier than restoring or fixing registry entries or databases. I had to restore 4 corrupted Exchange servers once. I've never been the same person since.

user Review by: Oichi_Ru (2)
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  • Jun 01, 2005
  • For version:
  • 4.01a

quote  Excellent freeware mail server  quote

  • Interface: 5
  • Features: 5
  • Ease of use: 5
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Mercury/32+Pegasus Mail Client is almost fully completed mail server, except webmail services. In latest version (v4.01a) it has add-in new features like HTTP(Web) server module, SSL/TLS support, Mailing List Subscriber Services, heavily improved spam filtering, improved HTML and encoding handling in Content Control, attachment filtering, VERP support in mailing lists, subscription passwords, IMAP Server improvements, transaction-level filtering and short-term blacklisting in SMTP direct delivery, connection control overhauled, improved console output and progressive backoff in delivery. I have use this software since 1996 (last time install Novell Netware), latest version ready improve a lot and it is very stable. I recommend Mercury/32+Pegasus, and if you need webmail service go to get STL Webmail Light.

user Review by: thoman
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  • Nov 08, 2004
  • For version:
  • 3.21c

quote  Powerful mail server  quote

  • Interface: 4
  • Features: 4
  • Ease of use: 4
  • Value: 5
  • Overall: 5

Mercury Mail is an almost complete mail server (except for web interface). It should be easy to setup if you have an experience and some understanding about the internet.

user Review by: mmteng01
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