At 04:25 PM 4/11/2004, you wrote:
It seems that whenever I restart sendmail with the new .cf for blacklist lookup, the server claims to shutdown then restart SMTP at 15 minute intervals '
I have the same problem. Changed sendmail.cf to add spam blocking lists. Now every once in a while active monitor will complain that SMTP is down when it isn't. I've learned to just ignore it. I think what might be happening is that active monitor tries to connect to sendmail with 127.0.0.1 IP, and sendmail does a blacklist lookup on that IP, if the lookup takes too long, or times out or something, active monitor complains that smtp is down. Just my guess.
Brian