Thursday, November 28, 2013

Sendmail ‘collect: premature EOM: unexpected close’



Sendmail 

‘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

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

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




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.