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23 The Mercury Core Module
Configuring Pegasus Mail to use Mercury/32

Copy default mail messages This option is only available when you create a user. If checked,
Mercury will look for files in the same directory as MERCURY.EXE that have the extension
.DMI: any it finds are copied into the new user’s mailbox as default mail messages that the
user will see the first time he or she reads new mail.

Configuring Pegasus Mail to use Mercury/32

Pegasus Mail and Mercury/32 were designed with each other in mind, and as a result there is
a tight integration between them. When you are using a Network personality module in Mer-
cury (for instance, the Novell NetWare Bindery mode personality module) then the integra-
tion between the two systems is usually automatic, but in environments where there is no
specific network support, you need to tell Pegasus Mail a little information to allow it to in-
teract with Mercury. Mercury can create the necessary information for Pegasus Mail auto-
matically using this option – simply type in the path to the directory where the copy of the
Pegasus Mail executable is installed, and Mercury will provide it with the gateway definition
it needs to run. If you have more than one copy of Pegasus Mail installed in different direc-
tories (for instance, if you have the DOS and Windows versions installed in different direc-
tories) you will need to use this option once for each version.

What this option actually does At the technical level, this option creates a specialized gate-
way definition that Pegasus Mail uses to submit messages to Mercury. Gateway definitions
are manipulated using the Pegasus Mail PCONFIG program and are stored in a file called PM-
GATE.SYS in the same directory as the Pegasus Mail executable: this option creates PM-
GATE.SYS if it does not already exist, then adds or updates a definition for a gateway called
MERCURY. You can examine and modify the gateway definition created by Mercury using the
PCONFIG program, which is supplied with both Pegasus Mail and Mercury. PCONFIG is a
DOS program and should be run from a command prompt: run it, and choose the Manage
User-defined Gateways option. to see or modify the settings created by Mercury.