LOTS of sendmail processes

[Andy Norris]

When I issue a service sendmail restart command, I get nine pids 
immediately, and it goes up from there. Way up most of the time.

I have lots of email that is not being scanned by MailScanner at all, 
and it's just the last few days this has been happening.

sendmail v8.12.11
RHEL ES v3 (Taroon update 4)
Avg load somewhere around 0.25 (goes to 0.60 and higher depending on 
time of day)
Perl v5.8.0
Using spamassassin v3.1.0
This is on a machine running Ensim Pro 4.0.3-22.rhel.3ES

I'm tempted a bit to "uninstall" MailScanner and SpamAssassin -- if 
that's possible -- and start all over again. I know it's got to be 
something that was duplicated somewhere... my fault, of course.

Thanks,

Andy