[SOLVED] deferred mail & load average

[thecuriouspenguin]

Hi,

I am currently trying to get Zimbra up and running. The problem I have is that zimbra is trying to relay mail to the root domain's ip.

How do I configure zimbra to send mail to itself?

cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.100.2 example.com mail

the firewall(pfsense) is configured to forward the public 2.2.2.2 address to 192.168.100.2

The dns record are as follow

host example.com
example.com has address 1.1.1.1
example.com mail is handled by 10 mail.example.com.

host -t a mail.example.com
mail.example.com has address 2.2.2.2

Zimbra's ip address is 2.2.2.2 however all the received mail are being forwarded to 1.1.1.1 as a result all the received mail ended up in the deferred queue.

I search the forum but did not find a solution.

Also, the load average is around 0.56 0.69 0.75 with only a couple test email. Is this normal? The server is a dual core xeon 2.13ghz with 3gb of memory and a 300gb hd running debian lenny.

thanks,

John

[phoenix]

Your hosts file is incorrect as it doesn't have a FQDN for the mail server, the correct format is in the Quick Start Installation Guide. You'll also need a Split DNS set-up as you're behind a NAT router. Both of those topics are all over the forums, if you search you'll find details on how to diagnose the correct set-up for both of them.

[thecuriouspenguin]

I reinstalled and corrected the hosts file to reflect the correct FQDN. Setting up split dns allowed me to removed the extra port forwarding rule for port 7025.

thanks,

John

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by thecuriouspenguin

I reinstalled and corrected the hosts file to reflect the correct FQDN. Setting up split dns allowed me to removed the extra port forwarding rule for port 7025.

Glad you've fixed it. If everything is working OK could you mark this thread as Solved (it's in the Thread Tools drop down at the top of the page)?

[thecuriouspenguin]

thanks phoenix,

I followed the split-dns link and modified the instruction slightly for debian. . don't know if it's correct but the split-dns to be working.

I installed bind and modified /etc/bind/name.conf.option and added my isp's name server to the forwarders

modified /etc/bind/named.conf.local and added the zone information for the mail server.

created /var/cache/bind/db.mail.server.com and pasted the instruction from the split-dns link.

anyway, I don't know if I configured bind correctly bu split dns seems to be working without error messages in the syslog.

thanks again,

John

[phoenix]

Originally Posted by thecuriouspenguin

anyway, I don't know if I configured bind correctly bu split dns seems to be working without error messages in the syslog.

thanks again,

You're welcome and thanks for updating the wiki. If the following commands (run on the Zimbra server) return your LAN IP (and your hosts file is correct, which it now is) then the Split DNS is OK:

dig yourdomain.com mx
dig yourdomain.com any
host `hostname` <- use that exact command with backticks not single quotes