Please help : Installation confirmation

[getridoff]

Dear Gurus of the Zimbra ,

This is my first time posting here..

I have installed zimbra collaboration suite on centos5 --> Release 4.5.8_GA_1394.RHEL5_20071002145535 CentOS5 FOSS edition

And i have installed this on my LAN machine, which is NATed as well. I have setup SPLIT DNS as well. And i can send and receive emails, with attachements, internally and externally successfully.

What i'd concern here that, each of the SPLIT DNS tutorial is different, and Im confused about it. And here it is :

1. Ajcody-Hostname-DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki
2. Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki
3. Making Zimbra & BIND Work Together » Zimbra :: Blog

For your info i have followed the tutorial from no.2 and the zimbra server is working good (that's what it seems from my opinion)

And im going to install this for production later on, and remove my old email server which is running on Sun Solaris, which have caused a few problems.

Below is the results from my Zimbra server checking, which i have followed from reading on this zimbra forum :

cat /etc/hosts
cat /etc/resolv.conf
dig yourdomain.com mx
dig yourdomain.com any
host `hostname`


cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.122 mail.themindgarden.com mail

cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.122

dig themindgarden.com mx
; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 <<>> themindgarden.com mx
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 24849
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
themindgarden.com. 86364 IN MX 10 mail.themindgarden.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
themindgarden.com. 86364 IN NS ns2.agigaworld.com.
themindgarden.com. 86364 IN NS ns1.agigaworld.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.themindgarden.com. 2592000 IN A 192.168.1.122
ns1.agigaworld.com. 14680 IN A 124.217.227.140
ns2.agigaworld.com. 14680 IN A 211.24.155.4

;; Query time: 1 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.122#53(192.168.1.122)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 15 00:38:24 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 151



dig themindgarden.com any

; <<>> DiG 9.3.6-P1-RedHat-9.3.6-4.P1.el5_4.1 <<>> themindgarden.com any
;; global options: printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 52147
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 3

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

;; ANSWER SECTION:
themindgarden.com. 86333 IN MX 10 mail.themindgarden.com.
themindgarden.com. 86333 IN NS ns1.agigaworld.com.
themindgarden.com. 86333 IN NS ns2.agigaworld.com.

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
themindgarden.com. 86333 IN NS ns2.agigaworld.com.
themindgarden.com. 86333 IN NS ns1.agigaworld.com.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
mail.themindgarden.com. 2592000 IN A 192.168.1.122
ns1.agigaworld.com. 14649 IN A 124.217.227.140
ns2.agigaworld.com. 14649 IN A 211.24.155.4

;; Query time: 57 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.122#53(192.168.1.122)
;; WHEN: Thu Jan 15 00:38:55 2009
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 179



host `hostname`
mail.themindgarden.com has address 192.168.1.122
mail.themindgarden.com mail is handled by 10 mail.themindgarden.com.mail.themindgarden.com.


So, what im requesting here, could any of the zimbra Guru's check my zimbra configuration here, and advice me if there is any mistakes, or some configuration that i have missed, so that i can do it again in a proper way, which i would like to.

Thank you

Regards
Muthu

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by getridoff

I have installed zimbra collaboration suite on centos5 --> Release 4.5.8_GA_1394.RHEL5_20071002145535 CentOS5 FOSS edition

Why have you installed that version, it is old and it's no longer supported. You should install the current 6.x release.

Originally Posted by getridoff

1. Ajcody-Hostname-DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki
2. Split DNS - Zimbra :: Wiki
3. Making Zimbra & BIND Work Together » Zimbra :: Blog

Those articles all say the same thing in slightly different ways.

From the results you've posted your DNS settings all look fine.

[getridoff]

Hi Phoenix,

you are great and thanks for the quick reply as well. Here Im in malaysia, and im hosting the site The Mind Garden | Mind Garden Book | Christina Chia in a datacenter. So my Boss is asking me to install Zimbra using 4.5.8 version, as he said this is stable version.

Im not sure why my boss do not want to install the new version although i have let him know. Is there any significant points that i can use to persuade my boss to use the latest version of zimbra, that i need to know ?

Thanks phoenix

[phoenix]

The main reason to upgrade (from my point of view) would be that the version you've installed isn't supported and any problems you may encounter you'd be asked to upgrade to a current release. There are a tone of new features in the current release, have a look at the product introduction on the main page at Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac

[getridoff]

Originally Posted by phoenix

The main reason to upgrade (from my point of view) would be that the version you've installed isn't supported and any problems you may encounter you'd be asked to upgrade to a current release. There are a tone of new features in the current release, have a look at the product introduction on the main page at Zimbra offers Open Source email server software and shared calendar for Linux and the Mac

Hi phoenix,

Thank you so much for your kind explanation, and you fantastic!! Thanks again phoenix and i will go thru the linkn you have given me!

Thanks phoenix.