Edward McLain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> Ok.. so qmail-remote crashed.. but why?

Who knows?  Did you kill it?

> It had also been running for over 3 hours?

So?  Long messages to a slow host can do this.
 
> Well to test it out I did the following:
[...]

You didn't use proper SMTP syntax, which qmail-remote would have.  Who
says you connected to the same machine as qmail-remote did?
"mx09.mindspring.com" could be a cluster of machines sitting behind a
load balancer.
 
> mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> rcpt to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

This isn't proper SMTP.

> Any ideas?

Just one:  stop worrying until you have evidence of an actual problem.
Everything you've described so far can be completely normal behaviour.

Charles
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