[cobalt-users] re: cobalt-users digest, Vol 1 #6889 - 15 msgs

[John MacDonald <jmacdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the reply...

>  I think both Dan and Zeffie have missed the
>>  original two posters' point; 
>>  it's not that sendmail isn't starting back
>>  up, but rather that it 
>>  appears to go down more often.

Appears is the keyword - I can always send mail,
and sendmail is always running in the ps.  The 
error message from root seems to be an error 
itself.

>>  I'm not sure why your server is experiencing
>>  higher load when you 
>>  install blocklists.  

Again, as far as I can tell, there is no excessive 
load on the server and sendmail is still running...
iow everything is fine except the reccuring error message. 

>> Are you sure all the
>>  blocklists you've chosen are 
>>  working properly and replying in a
>>  reasonable timeframe?  

Not positive - I've seen rejections from all
of them in the maillog.  Other than that
I have no clue how to test them. BTW,
they are spamcop, spamhaus, and orbl.

>>  Have you 
>>  tried manually testing the blocklists to see
>>  if they're putting a load 
>>  on your server?

No, how would I do this?

Thanks,
John