Troubles in setting the domain name

[Nacef]

Hi all,

I have installed Zimbra sucessfully but my problem is in the naming.

Let's assume that I have set my /etc/hosts like this :
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
my_ip_address myhost.mydomain.com myhost

After successfully installing the domain name for my emails is by default :
myemail@myhost.mydomain.com

The result I was expecting is : myemail@mydomain.com

So actually the trick was to create another virtual domain in my Zimbra configuration and name it mydomain.com

Is there any way to get this done normally when installing ?

Cheers
Nacef

[mmorse]

That is how you are supposed to have your hosts file.
Here's what you should do:
-Ditch the virtual domain.
-Just create a new/2nd domain.com in the admin console gui > domains section.
-Don't delete the host.domain.com yet, as there are admin reports/alerts slated to be delivered there.

Though you can certainly delete it if you'd like after you move the admin/spam/ham and update all the references.
You'll see what I mean if you:
su zimbra
zmprov gacf
Most just leave spam/ham alone and just create an alias of admin@domain.com in admin@host.domain.com.
You can also rename the spam/ham accounts (like if you wanted to remove the random numbers) - again be sure to update your zmlocalconfig.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by Nacef

Is there any way to get this done normally when installing ?

When you did the first clean install of ZImbra you would have been asked if you wanted to set the Domain Name, you must have hit enter without checking that option. That will give you the default that we found, the FQDN of your server.