[SOLVED] DNS .local domain with .co.uk zimbra mail server

[venomenus]

Hi all,

I am deploying Zimbra as a secondary mail server to MS Exchange 2007 and plan to completely replace Exchange when all accounts are eventually migrated, but the issue I have is that our domain is set as a .local domain (mydomain.local) and our email domain is (my-domain.co.uk), we also have no internal MX record either as our emails are sent to us via an SMTP feed from our ISP's mailfilter (so the MX record is that filter).

When I go to setup Zimbra and set a static IP address, and point it to our MS DNS server its named zimbra.mydomain.local, so after installation I end up with a mydomain.local admin account and email domain, should I just ignore this domain and add a new email domain to zimbra for my-domain.co.uk (then set as default) and whenever I need to log into the administrators console log in as admin@mydomain.local or is there another way to just setup zimbra with just my my-domain.co.uk?

Other than that everything seems to work perfectly and emails can be sent and received

Thanks for any advice or help in advance.

[jonallport]

Originally Posted by venomenus

should I just ignore this domain and add a new email domain to zimbra for my-domain.co.uk (then set as default) and whenever I need to log into the administrators console log in as admin@mydomain.local

Yes!

Don't forget that you don't need to fully qualify the admin username (admin@...) as 'admin' is a global administrator (I think; I only have one active domain!).