Mercury Mail Configuration in Windows
The Mercury Mail package in xampp for windows is a great way to start sending emails from openemr or any open source CMS program placed in xampp. The configuration is easy, just need to follow the steps:
Benefits of Mercury Mail in openEMR
- Easy to setup and integrated with XAMPP package
- Appointment reminders will be sent automatically using Batchcom/Automatic_notification via cronjob
- The patient reminder mails(alert reminders) will be sent automatically
- Secure
Obtaining Mercury Mail
If not using XAMPP, but still want to use mercury mail, you can get it from here http://www.pmail.com/downloads_s3_t.htm
Steps of Configuration
1. After downloading Mercury Mail and installing it or if using Xampp, you can find it in C:/xampp/MercuryMail, run the program
2. First of all we disable the HTTP server of Mercury so that it doesn't conflict with the apache.
3. In the open Mercury panel, Go to "Configuration" -> "Protocol modules"
4. Disable the check "MercuryB HTTP web server" and also disable "Mercury IMAP4rev1 server" because It won't be required.
5. To be able to send external mail we have to disable "MercuryE SMTP end-to-end delivery client" in the same dialog and enable "MercuryC SMTP relaying client". Click "OK" and restart Mercury.
6. Now click on "Windows" in the top toolbar and click "Tile windows" and click save position. This will make the viewing easy and the Mercury Panel clean to work with.
7. Next Go to "Configuration" -> "Mercury core module", tab "General"
8. We want to send from localhost, therefore we check if "localhost" is the value of "internet name for this system" and adjust that if not.
9. All other settings stay the same as they are already configured, but we'll have a look to the checkboxes beneath:
- Disable all but "Send copies of all errors to postmaster"
- Check under the tab "Local domains" if the entry "localhost (local host or server) localhost (internet name)" is there, if not, add it.
- Click "OK" and leave the dialog.
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