Unable to recieve email

[Dijital]

I can send just fine - however I am unable to receive any emails on my zimbra server, here is what the queue looks like please make suggestions on how to fix if I can:

[gmsmith]

Is your Zimbra server on a private IP? It almost seems like you are trying to go back out the firewall to deliver your mail again. You may want to look at setting up an internal dns server running on your zimbra machine to point to the internal IP

[Dijital]

Originally Posted by gmsmith

Is your Zimbra server on a private IP? It almost seems like you are trying to go back out the firewall to deliver your mail again. You may want to look at setting up an internal dns server running on your zimbra machine to point to the internal IP

I'm running the mail server on Debian Etch on a internet network, and have all necessary ports open the firewall. I'm using a internal DNS server as well, 172.16.1.250, and the mailserver is 172.16.1.252 do I need setup an additional DNS server (bind) on the mailserver as well then?

[phoenix]

Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki
........ and the usual question, run the following on your Zimbra server and post the ouitput:

host `hostname`   <---- type that as-is and use backticks not single quotes
dig yourdomain.com mx
dig yourdomain.com any

[Dijital]

Originally Posted by phoenix

Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki
........ and the usual question, run the following on your Zimbra server and post the ouitput:

host `hostname`   <---- type rthat as-is and use backticks not single quotes
dig yourdomain.com mx
dig yourdomain.com any

joneill@mail:~$ host `hostname`
mail.dijital.us has address 208.107.59.182
joneill@mail:~$ dig dijital.us mx

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> dijital.us mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55293
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dijital.us. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dijital.us. 38400 IN MX 10 mail.dijital.us.

;; Query time: 25 msec
;; SERVER: 172.16.1.254#53(172.16.1.254)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb 17 02:05:48 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 49

joneill@mail:~$ dig dijital.us any

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> dijital.us any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 7827
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 2, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;dijital.us. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
dijital.us. 38388 IN NS ns1.dijital.us.
dijital.us. 38388 IN NS ns1.lazytechs.com.

;; Query time: 25 msec
;; SERVER: 172.16.1.254#53(172.16.1.254)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb 17 02:05:59 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 77

[phoenix]

Your hosts file is incorrect, it points to your public IP(?) and it should point to the LAN IP. You also don't have the correct DNS A or MX records in any of those responses, read the article on Split DNS and correct those errors.

[Dijital]

Here is my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mail.dijital.us
172.16.1.252 mail.dijital.us mail

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts

[phoenix]

The following line is incorrect:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost mail.dijital.us

and should read:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

[aadilbcas]

hi...

my installation was succesfull on CentOS, yet i cannot send/receive mail

my /etc/hosts reads

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain   localhost
192.168.1.20 mail.mydomain.com   mail

but host hostname points a public IP

i followed split DNS too..

what am i supposed to do?
thanks..

aadil

[shrtcww]

I seem to have fallen into the same situation. zimbra to zimbra and zimbra to internet works but not internet to zimbra..

I am using an external relay and DNS lookup is disabled. Additionally I have a private DNS server in play (not on the physical machine but on our primary server)

I'm at a loss as to why at this point. At first I though it was because my isp was blocking 25, which they were and are no longer. Thus I'm out of ideas as to why.

The results of the commands mentioned earlier:

[root@zimbra ~]# host `hostname`
zimbra.ambientdivide.com has address 192.168.1.109
zimbra.ambientdivide.com mail is handled by 0 zimbra.ambientdivide.com.
[root@zimbra ~]# dig ambientdivide.com mx

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> ambientdivide.com mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 40181
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ambientdivide.com. IN MX

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ambientdivide.com. 14400 IN MX 0 zimbra.ambientdivide.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
zimbra.ambientdivide.com. 14400 IN A 64.142.94.171

;; Query time: 62 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.52#53(192.168.1.52)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb 24 19:27:16 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 74

[root@zimbra ~]# dig ambientdivide.com any

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4 <<>> ambientdivide.com any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 54113
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 5, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 4

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;ambientdivide.com. IN ANY

;; ANSWER SECTION:
ambientdivide.com. 14383 IN MX 0 zimbra.ambientdivide.com.
ambientdivide.com. 499 IN NS ns1.dreamhost.com.
ambientdivide.com. 499 IN NS ns3.dreamhost.com.
ambientdivide.com. 499 IN NS ns2.dreamhost.com.
ambientdivide.com. 11045 IN SOA ns1.dreamhost.com. hostmaster.dreamhost.com. 2008022400 19055 1800 1814400 14400

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
ns1.dreamhost.com. 172776 IN A 66.33.206.206
ns2.dreamhost.com. 172776 IN A 208.96.10.221
ns3.dreamhost.com. 172776 IN A 66.33.216.216
zimbra.ambientdivide.com. 14383 IN A 64.142.94.171

;; Query time: 44 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.52#53(192.168.1.52)
;; WHEN: Sun Feb 24 19:27:24 2008
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 233