sun xemacs 21.4

In response to my earlier message: Opening output file: Too many open files, /home/jeff/.xemacs/.recent-files.el Quit The only message that means anything to me is "too many open files". Is it possible that xemacs is not closing some internal files? Other than that, I am somewhat at a loss to track this down further. I got the suggestion to use lsof (ps, thanks). I noticed that I have .vm.folders.db opened 21 times in xemacs: bash% lsof | grep jeff | grep xemacs | grep .vm.folders.db | wc -l 21 Doing M-x vm, and get new mail: bash% lsof | grep jeff | grep xemacs | grep .vm.folders.db | wc -l 24 This count continues to grow as I do additional vm operations. I'm guessing this would be my problem. -jeff