LICENSE

The program can be used freely, although at your own risk. It may however not be
re-distributed or altered, and the copyright notice must be intact.

BASIC SETTINGS
Edit the http.ini file in the application directory according to your server env
ironment:
BindIP=127.0.0.1
Change this to the IP number of the server.
BindPort=81
The standard HTTP port is 80. If you have another HTTP service active on the ser
ver you will have to use a different port, though.
LogCut=128000
The maximum number of bytes to show in the log viewer. Default is 64000.
WebRoot=C:\mercury\HTTPServer\web
The directory where the html files are located.
MercDir=C:\mercury\
The directory where the Mercury executable is located. Optional. The program wil
l attempt to find Mercury automatically (from the Windows registry or by using t
he default location \mercury\), but if this for some reason fails it's possible
to enter the information here.
Autostart=0
Enter 1 if you want the http server to become active immediately when the progra
m is started. Otherwise enter 0 (default).

USER RIGHTS
The program should obviously run on the same computer as Mercury, and should pre
ferably be started by the same user.

AUTHORIZATION
The program has built-in server authorization that will verify user name and pas
sword against the POP3 account information in Mercury. It's possible to disable
it but at present no html files are provided for running the server without auth
orization active.
For access to the admin tools you need to log in using the Postmaster account.

CREATING USERS
As of version 1.1 there is a tool to create new users from the web page. Note th
at user creation requires maiser to be active and at least one admin password fo
r maiser to be defined. If not a server restart is needed to allow Mercury to fi
nd the new user.

CHANGING PASSWORDS
If you don't want users to be able to change their POP3 password from the web pa
ge you can remove this part from the usermbox.html template file (see comment in
the file).

STATUS DISPLAY
The status page shows the state of the most commonly used Mercury modules only.

VIEWING MESSAGES
The mailbox page provides a tool for admins to view messages in a user's inbox.
Messages are shown as individual MIME parts, and each part can be downloaded sep
arately. This tool is provided for troubleshooting purposes and is not intended
as a webmail alternative. When deleting messages from the web interface you need
to make sure there is no other simultaneous access to the mailbox.

LOGGING
The log display is intended for debugging purposes and needn't be active in norm
al use. The HTTP server keeps no log files.

HTML PAGES AND HTML TEMPLATE

If you want to personalize the web pages, just edit the files in the web directo
ry (.html and .tab) according to your preferences. template.html will change the
appearance of all server generated pages. Kindly leave the credits intact, thou
gh.

SECURITY
All communication with the HTTP server is in clear text and can be intercepted b
y a third party. I advise to use the tool in a LAN environment only and not make
it available to users connecting over the Internet. If you have remote users th
at may want to change their autoreply settings using this tool a good pratice is
to provide them with a VPN connection to the LAN.
Other than that there are no know security implications relating to this softwar
e.

OS REQUIREMENTS
The program has been tested under Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows 2000 Ser
ver. It's expected to work under Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows NT 4, Windows 2
003 Server, and Windows Vista as well, but some functions may not be available.
Please report problems to the mail address below.

Stockholm, March 2008

Rolf Lindby
rolf@serieguide.se
VERSIONS
1.0.1 (May 2006)
Added minimize to tray function.
Added favicon.
1.0.2 (September 2006)
Small bug fix in autoreply function. It's now possible to revert to autoreply wi
th no time limit after having used time limits.
Updated networking to latest build of Synapse (http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/).
1.0.3 (July 2007)
Autoreply with date limits will now allow the use of Mercury/32 template substit
utions in the reply message (see excerpt from the Mercury help below). Updated n
etworking to Synapse 38b5 (http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/).
1.1.0 (March 2008)
Added tools for starting, stopping, and restarting Mercury, as well as putting s
erver offline.
Added tools for creating new user and new alias.
Added tools for changing user passwords. The postmaster password is protected fr
om change, though.
Added display of messages in queue on the status page.
New global html templates (template.html for admin tools, usermbox.html for othe
r users).
New html templates for admin tools that will be displayed according to menu sele
ctions (status.sub, control.sub,
logs.sub, user.sub, mbox.sub).
Fixed bug in identification of loaded Mercury modules and added more information
to the status page.
New icon created.
Function to strip attachments from messages considered unreliable and removed fo
r the time being.
Updated networking to Synapse 38 final (http://www.ararat.cz/synapse/).
1.2.0 (June 2008)
Updated program to support Mercury version 4.61, which has some changes in the i
nternal window hierarchy.
Added detection of Mercury program version.
Added display of logfiles for standard daemons (SpamHalter, GrayWall, ClamWall)
if installed in the default location (main Mercury directory). Template file log
s.sub was changed accordingly.

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Excerpt from "Creating and enabling programmable autoreplies" in Mercury/32 help
:
"If the automatic reply is a valid Mercury/32 template file, add the optional va
lue "1" at the end of the line. All the standard rules for template files apply,
and you can use two special substitutions as well as the basic set - ~P0, which
is replaced with the full e-mail address of the owner of the mailbox to which t
he message is being delivered, and ~P1, which is replaced by the date in the "Da
te" field of the original message."