Saskia van Schagen: > 7. While the worker thread is still working and the main thread is blocking > on accept(), I'm sending another e-mail. > 8. The main thread is still blocking on accept(), there is no new client > connection.
That is a bug in your server. It should accept the connection
as soon as the client makes the connection request.
See Noel's suggestion for how to test this with concurrent telnet sessions.
Wietse
