Sendmail ‘collect: premature EOM: unexpected close’

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‘collect: premature EOM: unexpected close’

If you are getting a ‘collect: premature EOM: unexpected close’ in your mail logs, or if you have people complaining that they cannot send email to your server and you have this error, then there's a solution to the problem.

I had over time installed several Blacklist denials in my sendmail.mc config file, and that perhaps one of these was not responding anymore.

By commenting out each Blacklist deny one at a time, I discovered which one was no longer responding. To comment out a line in the main sendmail.mc file, simply put dnl at the start of the line. 

FEATURE(`dnsbl’,`sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org’,`“550 Denied RBL ” $&{client_addr} ” by sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org”’)dnl

FEATURE(`dnsbl',`dnsbl.sorbs.net',`"554 Rejected " $&{client_addr} " Found in dnsbl.sorbs.net"',`t')dnl

Prizefight - Apple iPhone 5S vs. Samsung Galaxy S4

Android Pushes Past 80% Market Share

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24442013
http://www.zdnet.com/windows-phone-gains-but-android-rules-7000023096/
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2623415


 IDC found that "By itself, Nokia accounted for 93.2 percent of
all the Windows Phone-powered smartphones shipped during the quarter"

Top Four Operating Systems, Shipments, and Market Share, Q3 2013 (Units in Millions) 

Operating System	3Q13 Shipment Volumes	3Q13 Market Share	3Q12 Shipment Volumes	3Q12 Market Share	Year-Over-Year Change
Android	211.6	81.0%	139.9	74.9%	51.3%
iOS	33.8	12.9%	26.9	14.4%	25.6%
Windows Phone	9.5	3.6%	3.7	2.0%	156.0%
BlackBerry	4.5	1.7%	7.7	4.1%	-41.6%
Others	1.7	0.6%	8.4	4.5%	-80.1%
Total	261.1	100.0%	186.7	100.0%	39.9%

Source: IDG (November 2013)

Samsung smartphone sales surge,
while Apple gets a small boost from iPhone 5S

Gartner Says Smartphone Sales Accounted for 55 Percent
of Overall Mobile Phone Sales in Third Quarter of 2013

Windows Phone grows,
but so do non-Samsung Android vendors

Worldwide Smartphone Sales to End Users by Vendor in 3Q13 (Thousands of Units)

Company	3Q13 Units	3Q13 Market Share (%)	3Q12 Units	3Q12 Market Share (%)
Samsung	80,356.8	32.1	55,054.2	32.1
Apple	30,330.0	12.1	24,620.3	14.3
Lenovo	12,882.0	5.1	6,981.0	4.1
LG Electronics	12,055.4	4.8	6,986.1	4.1
Huawei	11665.7	4.7	7,804.3	4.5
Others	102941.8	41.1	70206.8	40.9
Total	250,231.7	100.0	171,652.7	100.0

Source: Gartner (November 2013)

Will Windows Phone overtake the iPhone in Europe in 2014?

The latest report from Kantar Worldpanel ComTech has plenty of good news for Windows Phone.
In Italy Windows PHone has a 16.1% market share to the iPhone's 10.1%.

Apple Gets “Significant Bounce” On 5c, 5s iPhones; Android Still Trumps With 71% Share Of All Sales


Kantar Worldpanel ComTech, the WPP market research division that provides a rolling check-in on how smartphones are selling in key markets, has put out its latest figures this morning covering the 12 weeks that ended October 31. It looks like the debut of new iPhones from Apple have given the company a “signficant bounce” in sales. But even with the launch of not one but two new models — the colorful 5c and elegant 5s — the impact of incremental upgrades has not been as strong as last year’s debut of the iPhone 5. All in all, Kantar says Android took 71% of all sales across 12 key markets versus 21% for the iPhone.
Specifically, in important markets like the U.S., Android took nearly 53% of sales. In Europe, Android accounted for nearly 71% of sales collectively across Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.