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Hi Donard,
A Userhelp volunteer offers this:
What has happened is some spammer somewhere used your email
address as the reply-to address on his spam. Anyone can use any
address on email if they don't care where the replies go. The spammer
does this to defeat anti-spam measures that confirm an email address
is valid before accepting mail from it.
The spammer could have gotten your address dozens of different
ways - from postings on the net, from someplace you've given your
email address, from infecting someone's computer who has your address
in their addressbook, etc. There is no way to stop this happening and
changing your email address to a new one will not stop this from
happening again.
The good news is that a spammer will only use an address for a
small run of spam email - otherwise they risk getting filtered out -
so any bounced messages you're getting will peter out pretty quick.
Spammers have literally millions of email addresses to use so you
should only see this sort of thing once in a while.
Most mail systems are smart enough to not bounce undeliverable spam
email to the reply address on the email, since it is always some
innocent third party such as yourself at the receiving end of it.
Some mail systems aren't so clever and they will bounce the
undelivered spam.
So, main point is this is not a big deal and will happen from time
to time to you and most other internet mail users, the bounces will
pass, and there is not much to be done about it by either you or us.
CCN Help
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On Sat, 7 Jun 2008, Donard Dunfee wrote:
> Hi folks
> The last couple of days I have been getting undeliverable mail notices from
> addresses that I havent sent any mail to.
> It is in the hundreds. (well it is getting to be)
> How can I stop the out going mail from my email address.
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