Solved Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only)
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Fingers crossed and try sending an email again.
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yes working ... am able to send and recieve emails finally....
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last one more question .. if in case my management needs a option to recieve email from outside domain (Gmail,Yahoo,etc) but cant send outside can we do it ??
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@nagendra said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
yes working ... am able to send and recieve emails finally....
Pheww. For future reference, email (even local) depends heavily on hostname lookups. This will always be a problem with email servers so good to have that ready before even starting the email installation.
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@nagendra said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
last one more question .. if in case my management needs a option to recieve email from outside domain (Gmail,Yahoo,etc) but cant send outside can we do it ??
Receive ONLY? Yes, that can be done. You would need to fix the DNS issues, and you would need to open port 25 on your firewall and point it to the Zimbra server, and you would need to open port 25 on the Zimbra server itself. To stop outgoing emails, block port 25 outbound on the main firewall (a good practice, anyway.)
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@scottalanmiller thanks a trillion
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@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
(a good practice, anyway.)
will bug u again please next week once i show this to my management...
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@nagendra said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
@scottalanmiller thanks a trillion
No problem, glad that we got all of that figured out.
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@nagendra said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
@scottalanmiller said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
(a good practice, anyway.)
will bug u again please next week once i show this to my management...
You are lucky that I had to build a new one of these just a few weeks ago that is used in production that I can look at live to help. It has been a while since I had these in production. I like Zimbra a lot, though. It's a good product and works well. And free is hard to beat.
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@scottalanmiller yes ports are already opened . can i send outside also now ???
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In addition to the web interface, there is a Zimbra Desktop Client that you can use. I do not use it as it uses Java and that's just silly. But it is an option.
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@nagendra said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
@scottalanmiller yes ports are already opened . can i send outside also now?
It's an email server, its main function is to send email. So unless you have port 25 blocked for outbound traffic, yes, it will make an attempt to send emails if you try.
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yes its working i tried sending email to outside domain ... i will block it now ..
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@nagendra said in Zimbra installation and configuration (internal use only):
yes its working i tried sending email to outside domain ... i will block it now ..
Now you know that you have that functionality down the road when you are ready.
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thanks to everyone so whenever i setup a email server i will make sure all the above is followed ...
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Guys need urgent help
we change the Zimbra mail server IP from 192.168.4.XXX to 192.168.1.XXX now am unable to recieve emails from outside domain
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@nagendra Zimbra needs just a few things to change the IP address:
- hostname must match the IP address (check that /etc/hosts is correct, and reports the right name of the zimbra machine)
- you must have the right IP address in zimbraMtaMyNetworks:
as zimbra user,
zmprov ms <yourmailserverfullname> zimbraMtaMyNetworks '127.0.0.1/8 192.168.4.0/16 <otherIPrangesyouneed>' - execute as zimbra user
postfix reload
and
postconf mynetworks
to check that everything is correct.
If you use an external dns server, make sure it returns the correct results for your changed IP.
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@cdaffara
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guys need help
we have one more mail server in our premises @yourmail.com Zimbra is in @yourmail.studio we are trying to send email from @yourmail.studio to @yourmail.com its not working but we are able to receive mails from @yourmail.com
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Start with DNS for anything like this. Figure out how each server will look up the other.
Second, look at the error messages and see why it says that it was not sent.
