Fresh Install Of Zimbra On SuSE 10

[marcmac]

dns isn't controlled by the hosts file - DNS comes from your dns server, both A records and MX records (which is what we're trying to verify).

I thought in one of your earlier posts, you said you had a DNS server running?

What do you get from:
host mail.freeos.co.uk
host -t mx mail.freeos.co.uk

[yogiman]

Hi

Yes I do have DNS running on the same box.

I just received an odd return mail from yahoo daemon which said it could not contact:

admin@mail.freeos.co.uk

should this not be admin@freeos.co.uk

The answer to your question is:

host mail.freeos.co.uk

Gives: mail.freeos.co.uk has address (external address here)


host -t mx mail.freeos.co.uk

Gives: Nothing (just returns to the next line)

[marcmac]

What domain are you planning on hosting mail for? That's the domain you want to create in zimbra. The hostname doesn't really matter, as long as it's resolvable.

Once you've chosen a domain, set up an MX record pointing to the IP address of the host that's handling mail for that domain.

[yogiman]

Sorry but I was under the impression that mx and a records were setup at who ever forward mail/web requests to me in my case zoneedit.com

If not can you tell me where I set these up?

Thank you for your continued help!

[marcmac]

No, I can't tell you where to set them up, since I'm not running your DNS - but if you know who is, you need to contact them.

[yogiman]

My A and MX record which I believe is what point people or mail to me is already setup at zoneedit.

I these are the people you mean then it is done.

If this is not what you mean then please explain. I have not had to do this on previous mail server installations so why this one?

If I take the zimbra server offline and put my other mail server online mail works inbound and outbound

[marcmac]

host mail.freeos.co.uk
mail.freeos.co.uk has address 81.153.186.1

host -x mx mail.freeos.co.uk
no response

Your DNS is not completely set up, since there's no MX record for your domain.

[yogiman]

host mail.freeos.co.uk
mail.freeos.co.uk has address 81.153.186.1

host -x mx mail.freeos.co.uk
no response

Your DNS is not completely set up, since there's no MX record for your domain.

Marcmac

the domain is freeos.co.uk
the zimbra server is called mail
if I goto dnstuff and to an mxrecord check on freeos.co.uk it is fine.

Why are you checking mail.freeos.co.uk

command:

host mail.freeos.co.uk returns my external address
host -t mx freeos.co.uk returns:

freeos.co.uk is handled by 0 mail.freeos.co.uk

So mx records exist for my domain

they would not exist for mail.freeos.co.uk because mail is the server name not the domain name the domain name is freeos.co.uk

Does this help?

[marcmac]

Ok, then you're fine.

When you install, and it says "no mx for domain whatever" change it to the domain you want to route mail for.

[yogiman]

This is the problem

the zimbra installer thinks my domain is called mail.freeos.co.uk when actually my domain is called freeos.co.uk the machine that zimbra is install on is called mail.

The hostname files says

mail.freeos.co.uk

the hosts files says

address mail.freeos.co.uk mail

so where is the zimbra installer getting the domain mail.freeos.co.uk and not freeos.co.uk

Is there an error in the installer or on my system, if its on my system where does it look for this information?