[ale] kmail errors

[Paul Cartwright]

something is wrong with my mail processing. Now when I start checking mail, 
and I do a ps -ef|grep pop3 I get over 100 lines of this: 

pbc      17006  4451  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 kio_pop3 [kdeinit] 
pop3 /tmp/ksocket-pbc/klauncherGPhGfa.slave-
pbc      17007  4451  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 kio_pop3 [kdeinit] 
pop3 /tmp/ksocket-pbc/klauncherGPhGfa.slave-
pbc      17008  4451  0 18:26 ?        00:00:00 kio_pop3 [kdeinit] 
pop3 /tmp/ksocket-pbc/klauncherGPhGfa.slave-
pbc      17356 13977  0 18:26 pts/2    00:00:00 grep pop3
pbc at Paulspc:~/bin> ps -ef|grep pop3|wc -l
111


what is happening and how do I fix it??
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Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Ubuntu User number is # 12459