39,696 emails later...

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Well, my flood of mails has stopped at 39,696.   My boss and people at the office were also getting the mails at the office domain. I took the office mail server offline when they were at about 9,000 mails to prevent them from getting flooded. After I stopped getting mails at my home address, I checked the sending mail server and the zombie processes had stopped. I put the office machine back online and the zombie processes kicked in again, and the people at the office began receiving the mails again. Should I tell them to just hang in there until the total reaches 39,696?   The zombie processes look like this:   qmailr 26008  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:16PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31053-rtag qmailr 26088  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31068-rtag qmailr 26097  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31066-m_ay qmailr 26101  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31069-m_ay qmailr 26119  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-rtag qmailr 26122  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-m_ay qmailr 26124  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-sant qmailr 26127  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31070-naka qmailr 26131  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-rtag qmailr 26132  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.01 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-m_ay qmailr 26133  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-sant qmailr 26134  0.0  0.5   888  568  ??  S     3:17PM   0:00.00 qmail-remote officedom.com query-return-31067-naka .... (this list shows about half of the processes)   As I mentioned before, I have removed user 'query' in whose name the mails are being sent, stopped qmail, cleared the cache, restarted qmail and even rebooted the server itself, but these zombies just won't die. Anyone have an oaken stake for qmail-remote?   Thanks,   Shawn