David Ellis wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have undoubtedly missed something in the documentation, and I am not
> very familiar with system administration, but I thought someone might be
> willing to point me to resources to answer my questions, or offer a bit
> of advice.
>
> I am trying to setup a testing environment (with a nameserver, mstone
> (load generator), and sink) to evaluate performance of a milter. The
> milter part is working fine, but when I send messages from the mstone
> server, they don't reach the sink.
>
> Here is everything I have in the .mc file:
>
> define(`confDOMAIN_NAME', `adkim.net')dnl

Note that I also tried using `other.net' here, to avoid sendmail
accepting these messages, but that seemed to have no effect.

> define(`ALIAS_FILE', `/etc/aliases')dnl
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(dk-filter, S=inet:8891@localhost)dnl
>
>
> And here is what I expect should lead the messages to "mail.adkim.net"
> (another name for the sink).
>
> david@mstone:~$ dig in mx adkim.net
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.2.4 <<>> in mx adkim.net
> ;; global options: printcmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 31825
> ;; flags: qr aa rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 1, ADDITIONAL: 2
>
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;adkim.net. IN MX
>
> ;; ANSWER SECTION:
> adkim.net. 60 IN MX 10 mail.adkim.net.
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> adkim.net. 60 IN NS ns.adkim.net.
>
> ;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
> mail.adkim.net. 60 IN A 192.168.15.5
> ns.adkim.net. 60 IN A 192.168.15.3
>
> Here is a snippet from the maillog:
>
> Sep 22 18:52:43 mstone sendmail[8268]: k8MMqhQX008268:
> from=<mailtestuser0@adkim.net>, size=237, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<200604100302.k3A32Mua011543@mstone.adkim.ne t>, proto=SMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]
> Sep 22 18:52:50 mstone sendmail[8996]: k8MMqoKn008996:
> localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1] did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN
> during connection to MTA
> Sep 22 18:52:51 mstone sendmail[8310]: k8MMqhQX008268:
> to=<mailtestuser28@adkim.net>, ctladdr=<mailtestuser0@adkim.net>
> (1002/1002), delay=00:00:08, xdelay=00:00:08, mailer=local, pri=30715,
> dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent
>
> Although some messages are reported as sent, they are all delivered
> locally (after a long delay). The problem is that I need all mail to
> adkim.net to be delivered to the sink, but I need the sendmail milter at
> the localhost (mstone) to operate on (sign/verify/etc) messages from
> adkim.net (and then send them to the sink).
>
> I tried changing the domain sendmail is configured with to 'other.net',
> but that seemed to have no effect. Maybe it's a problem with the sink?

The maillog on the sink reports no activity at all, so the messages
don't seem to be leaving the mstone machine.

> That might explain the delay (I guess). If anyone has any hints or
> suggestions, or could point me to specific resources, that would be great.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David