The Bottom Line
Pros
- Mercury/32 comes packed with features and solidity from tradition
- Flexible filtering including outgoing mail and disclaimers, strong anti-spam features
- Mercury/32 supports multiple domains, domain mailboxes and can fetch mail from POP accounts
Cons
- Mercury/32 configuration a bit fragmented, no web administration interface
- Can't use the Windows user database
Description
- Mercury/32 is a SMTP/POP/IMAP, Finger, PH and, partly, webmail server.
- Extensive filters and actions plus an interface to external applications offer flexible automatic actions in Mercury/32.
- Precise connection control, filters, DNS blacklists, the Bayesian SpamHalter filter and graylisting help dam spam.
- Mercury/32 includes solid support for mailing lists with a web-based administration interface.
- Using flexible scheduling and remote POP email collecting, Mercury/32 works well in dial-up setups.
- Integration with Clam AV lets Mercury/32 detect viruses.
- Mercury/32 can keep detailed connection logs and statistics.
- You can run Mercury/32 as a Windows service.
- Mercury/32 supports Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/3/XP/Vista.
Guide Review - Mercury/32 4.72 - Free Mail Server
Mercury/32, the mail server from the maker of Pegasus Mail, is a great example. Years of coding have made Mercury/32 a feature-rich, powerful and, most of all, very flexible mail server.
You can use Mercury/32 as an SMTP, POP, IMAP, Finger and, to some extent, webmail server. Each module is highly configurable, and Mercury/32 offers extensive filtering, content control, disclaimers and an interface to external mail processors. Mercury/32 elegantly connects with SpamHalter, a Bayesian spam filter and the ClamAV anti-virus engine, for example.
Security is also tight in Mercury/32 with precise access control and TLS/SSL support across protocols. Unfortunately, web-based access is limited to mailing list administration.
One of a long, continuous development history's adverse effects is an almost inevitable fragmentation of the configuration, which takes you to many a dialog and window in Mercury/32. A bit more and better Windows integration such as using the Windows user database would also be nice. It's nice that Mercury/32 can run as a Windows service, though.
