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[Tonka.]

Now, here's an exciting one for you 
I have a problem with my email. Over the last five days I have received about 1600 emails. Ordinarily, I receive about 5 day.
They are dropping into my in box titled "Delivery Status Notification (Delay)" or "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)".
However, I did not send them to start with and the email addresses I have never heard of.

Would any body be willing to look at a a couple of them and advise me on what to do?

[Plomien]

somebody is using your email as a spoof address, change your password

[The Red Baron]

somebody is using your email as a spoof address, change your password

yep, get it changed asap. 

[Tonka.]

Email POP password changed yesterday chaps.....still going on 

[TheBoy]

You will be getting all the notifications for the ones sent previously.

PM me the headers for one, and I'll check if it was just someone spoofing, or if it actually came from your account.

[TheBoy]

Email POP password changed yesterday chaps.....still going on 

Its actually the SMTP p/w that needs to be changed. Depending on your email provider, this may or may not be the same as the POP3 one.

[Tonka.]

Last night I changed the POP passwords again. For now, they seem to have stopped 


Incoming PM TB !!

[TheBoy]

OK, looks like more than a spoof, ensure your password is secure.

If you use the same password for vital services (banks/shopping/cards etc), change these as well.

[Tonka.]

Thanks for your help TB.


All my passwords are individual and secure. 

[Rods2]

I've had this happen recently, with two websites / email systems that I look after, I created the passwords so they were secure random, upper / lower case letters, numbers and punctuation characters and a minimum of 8 characters long. Changing the passwords cured the problem. I am now making passwords at least 14 character long, as I'm no longer convinced that 8 digits are strong enough.

The alternative is that as both accounts were used by the same person, they may have had a Trojan horse on their PC.

[TheBoy]

I've had this happen recently, with two websites / email systems that I look after, I created the passwords so they were secure random, upper / lower case letters, numbers and punctuation characters and a minimum of 8 characters long. Changing the passwords cured the problem. I am now making passwords at least 14 character long, as I'm no longer convinced that 8 digits are strong enough.

The alternative is that as both accounts were used by the same person, they may have had a Trojan horse on their PC.

8 character with numbers/symbols is plenty good enough. If you feel someone is brute forcing, implement a lockout, and check the logs.