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The Mercury Core Module 12
The “Mercury Core Module” Configuration menu option.

Options on the Groups page
Many network systems, such as Novell NetWare, support the idea of user groups, or arbitrary
collections of users on the file server. Use this page if you are using a network plugin module
that supports the idea of groups and you want to allow Mercury to deliver mail to some or all
of the groups on your system. Group delivery is like a specialised form of mailing list con-
taining only local users. By default, Mercury does not make groups available for mailing pur-
poses - this is partially a security issue and partially a configurability issue. In order to make
a group on your system available to receive mail, you must add it here. Making a group avail-
able involves providing three pieces of information:

Public name The public name of a group is the e-mail address people will use to send mail
to the group. You can give a group the same public name as its actual name on your system,
but there may often be reasons why you might not want to do this - for instance, you might
feel that the group everyone on your Novell NetWare server is less suitable than the name
staff, so you might define the group’s public name to be staff. People would then mail
everyone on your server by sending a message to staff@server.domain. You will also
need to use different public names for groups on different servers that have the same group
name.

Group name The actual name of the group on your network. The group’s public name may
be different from this name.

Host system The server or host on which the group is based. In single-server environments
you will not have to enter anything in this field, and the value entered here will vary depend-
ing on the underlying network: for instance, under Novell NetWare Bindery Mode, the host
name will be the name of the Bindery Server that holds this group.

Example:
Your NetWare server’s Internet name is orange.com, and you have a group on it called
SUPPORT, which you want people to be able to mail as tech-support@orange.com.

In the Public name field enter tech-support
In the Group name field enter SUPPORT

Note that when defining groups you do not add your system's domain name.

Options on the Files page
Use this page to tell Mercury the locations in which it should look for various files associated
with specific features of the program. There should usually be little or no need to change these
values. Note that when you are using Mercury on a Network, all paths should be entered in
UNC format - like this: \\SERVER\VOLUME\PATH. It is permissible to use DOS paths as
well, but you should not use non-standard paths, such as the Novell NetWare path format. In
all cases it is permissible for the filename you enter not to exist — Mercury will create it as
necessary. In most cases, however, the directory in which the file is located must exist – Mer-
cury generally will not create directories automatically.

“List of lists” file (listfile) The location and name of the file in which Pegasus Mail stores
information about the mailing lists available on your system.

Scratch files directory A path to a directory where Mercury can create temporary files. If sup-
plied, this path should be on a local workstation volume, not on a file server volume. If you
leave this field blank, Mercury will use either the temporary directory configured for Win-
dows, or the directory specified in a TEMP or TMP environment variable.