Installation problem

[soundmax123]

i configured my DNS as given by the split DNS tutorial and i did nslookup of myserver.example.com and it returned my internal address,but on installation,it still told me that "DNS ERROR resolving MX for alpha.paletteng.com
It is suggested that the domain name have an MX record configured in DNS"

i continued and i got port conflicts with port 25, i continued and now my mta is not running after installation.


how do i correct these errors.

[uxbod]

If you got port conflicts on 25 that I reckon you already have another MTA installed. With respect to your DNS settings please post the following

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig yourdomain mx
dig yourdomain any
host `hostname` <- note backticks and not single quotes

Would you please update your profile with the output from

su - zimbra
zmcontrol -v

so we know which version of ZCS you are running

[soundmax123]

cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
#::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.2.188 alpha.paletteng.com alpha


cat /etc/resolv.conf
search alpha.paletteng.com
nameserver 192.168.2.188
nameserver 192.168.2.100

dig yourdomain mx
; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> paletteng.com mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 45581
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 1

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
paletteng.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.paletteng.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
paletteng.com. 86400 IN NS alpha.paletteng.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
alpha.paletteng.com. 86400 IN A 192.168.2.188

;; Query time: 0 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.188#53(192.168.2.188)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 17 12:04:02 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 88

dig paletteng.com any

; <<>> DiG 9.3.4-P1 <<>> paletteng.com any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 50086
;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
paletteng.com. 86400 IN MX 10 mail.paletteng.com.
paletteng.com. 86400 IN SOA alpha.paletteng.com. dukaegbu.paletteng.com. 20090213 7200 300 604800 60
paletteng.com. 86400 IN NS alpha.paletteng.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
alpha.paletteng.com. 86400 IN A 192.168.2.188

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.2.188#53(192.168.2.188)
;; WHEN: Tue Feb 17 12:07:11 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 133


host `hostname`
alpha.paletteng.com has address 192.168.2.188


those are the results. what next?

[uxbod]

Your MX record is pointing at mail.paletteng.com when it should be pointing too alpha.paletteng.com. You should also update the search in /etc/resolv.conf to be paletteng.com.

[soundmax123]

i have updated my MX record to alpha.paletteng.com and my /etc/resolv.conf file to
search paletteng.com

The VERSION of zcs installed (5.0.13_GA_2791_RHEL5_64)

what next should i do? should i reinstall zimbra or is their any way to start my MTA that does not start because of the port 25 conflict.

[phoenix]

zmcontrol stop ; zmcontrol start

Then read the Admin Guide.

[soundmax123]

this is my result for zmcontrol status and this was my result

zmcontrol status
Host alpha.paletteng.com
antispam Running
antivirus Running
imapproxy Running
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Running
mta Stopped
postfix is not running
snmp Running
spell Running
stats Running

i did zmcontrol start everything seems to start but when i do zmcontro status again,mta doesnt start.

[uxbod]

Check /var/log/zimbra.log to see why it is not running. You can also do a

su - zimbra
zmcontrol stop
netstat -an | grep 25

to see if you already have a MTA running. You could also check for a couple of standard ones.

ps aux | grep sendmail
ps aux | grep postfix

If one of those is running you can then do

/etc/init.d/sendmail stop
/etc/init.d/postfix stop

and then try starting ZCS again.

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by soundmax123

imapproxy Running

If this is a single server installation then you should not be using the proxy, check the forums for details on how to disable it and reset the ports to their correct values.

[soundmax123]

thanks for ur help so far

i have installed it.i created two accounts and both can receive and send mails.

How do i configure my global settings to be able to send and receive mails to external clients. because i cant send mails out yet and cant receive mails from outside.