what does this mean?

[Net Llama!]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> James McDonald wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 07:14:30PM +0800, Man-wai Chang wrote:
> >>
> >> Jan  5 12:30:51 server sendmail[15412]: j054UpEd015412: collect:
> >> premature EOM: unexpected close
> >> Jan  5 12:30:51 server sendmail[15412]: j054UpEd015412: collect:
> >> unexpected close on connection from localhost,
> >> sender=<inamotokin at yahoo.com.hk>
> >>
> > sounds like you mail send process died before saying goodbye politely... Premature End Of Message.... Or your MUA gave up before it had finished giving the server the full message.
> >
> > In short I have no idea.
>
> it said "connection from localhost". but my localhost doesn't have
> anyone named "inamotokin at yahoo.com.hk"

How confident are you that no one has broken into your box, or that
you'r'e not running an open mail relay?


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