Wow, I believe this is the first-ever "security guarantee" payout by DJB? Not bad!, not bad at all!, considering how popular both qmail and djbdns are.
Are you sure it's explicit (ie: changing some qmail configuration file) rather than just depending on how the system-wide rlimits are set up?
Guninski claimed that following the exact instructions in the INSTALL file results in a vulnerable configuration (assuming the exploitable hardware configuration)
http://www.ornl.gov/lists/mailing-lists/qmail/2005/05/msg008...