Mail Daemon

[forceten32]

Since around the time I upgraded to IE7 (tho there may be no connection),
I've been receiving a huge number of daemon e-mails and undeliverable
notices for e-mails I never sent. I used to get 5-10 a day; now it's
50-75. And they're from a large variety of servers and intended addesses -
no (or few) duplicate servers or addressees.

Has there been some change recently that would explain this? Or have I just
gotten lucky all of a sudden

Fred

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Since around the time I upgraded to IE7 (tho there may be no connection),
I've been receiving a huge number of daemon e-mails and undeliverable
notices for e-mails I never sent. I used to get 5-10 a day; now it's
50-75. And they're from a large variety of servers and intended addesses -
no (or few) duplicate servers or addressees.

Has there been some change recently that would explain this? Or have I just
gotten lucky all of a sudden

Fred

You may be in deep trouble. I suspect that some spammer is
using your email address as a forged sender's address for his
spam messages. Since the address lists used by spammers
contain large numbers of invalid addresses, you now receive
lots of bounce messages. You may have to give up your
current address.