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Old 11-01-2006, 07:12 AM
Storm16 Storm16 is offline
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Originally Posted by phoenix
The usual question, I'm afraid, do you also have valid DNS records & /etc/hosts file on your system pointing to your zimbra server?
I believe so.

Here is /etc/hosts on the server running Zimbra:
Code:
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.224.12  merrimac.mydomain.com   merrimac
DNS entries for the mailserver:

Code:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;merrimac.mydomain.com. IN A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
merrimac.mydomain.com. 86400 IN A 192.168.224.12
Code:
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;mydomain.com.  IN      MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
mydomain.com. 86400 IN  MX      10 merrimac.mydomain.com.
mydomain.com. 86400 IN  MX      12 mekong.mydomain.com.
I also have a CNAME record for mail.mydomain.com pointing to merrimac. On my workstation, I do not have a record for merrimac in /etc/hosts, so it should be forced to use DNS.

--Storm
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