> But when he does kick off this 100 requests at one time qmail spawns
> a lot of pop3 processes and then after 30-50 has been executed pop3
> dies completely - why ? And what can I do to make the system able to
> handle this kind of (ab)use ?

I would think you run pop3 from inetd and when suddenly someone 
starts 100 simultaneous connections, inetd freaks out and slams the 
brakes. If I'm right, the solution is to kick inetd and use xinetd 
or, preferably, tcpserver.
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Petr Novotny, ANTEK CS
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