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From: zmls04@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Martin L. Smith)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs
Subject: spawning looping processes when sending mail with vm
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Date: 1 Aug 89 18:12:58 GMT
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I've been using `vm' to manage mail for the last couple of days and
have observed that I am spawning looping processes on my file server.
I'm on a Sun 3/60 and the server is a Sparc machine.

Ps entries for these processes are typically:
	22810 ?  R    31:08 -AA22810 From gpe3: RCPT (sendmail)
where gpe3 is the name of my node.

As I understand it, vm uses the smail feature that comes with gnu emacs.
Does anybody have any suggestions about what is happening and what we
might do about it?