[gnu.emacs] spawning looping processes when sending mail with vm

zmls04@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Martin L. Smith) (08/02/89)

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?