Sendmail

I am having difficulty understanding the relationship between hobbit and the sendmail messages in /var/spool/mqueue - they are large, dynamic and are taking significant CPU time as well as keeping my disk drive fairly busy.
Can this be controlled/eliminated?

Thanks
Gregg

GREGORY D. WHITEHOUSE
Unix Administrator
Health Information Technology Services (HITS-NS)
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