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Qmail-smtpd spawning many processes, using full cpu

Still having this issue

I am having the same issue: "top" reveals a million qmaild processes and my customer email boxes are not getting any new mail everthing elce on the box seems to be working including outgoing.

Ok I'm preaty new to Linux and my wonderfull godaddy support is very limited with what the will help me with... I logged into my linux server using puttty loged in as su - the typed cd /var/qmail/control then used ls -l and got this.

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 Mar 15 14:29 databytes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34 Oct 16 2009 defaultdelivery
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 245 Mar 22 16:37 dh1024.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 156 Mar 22 16:36 dh512.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70 Jun 17 14:15 locals
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38 Feb 15 18:41 me
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1167 Jun 17 14:15 rcpthosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1279 Jun 17 14:15 rejectnonexist
-rw------- 1 qmaild root 493 Feb 15 18:29 rsa512.pem
-rw-r----- 1 qmaild qmail 2954 Feb 15 18:28 servercert.pem
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 25 Oct 16 2009 smtpplugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28 Feb 15 18:44 smtproutes
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1279 Jun 17 14:15 virtualdomains

Which means the files are there right I can probally go to godaddy paid support but we've had this problem in the past and they didnt seem to help. Only thing that might be different from the norm is we are using Postini on most of our domains and as all our domain are trying to unspool into this machine it may be causing issues.

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated! Thanks!
 
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