email spam sent from my account

I recieved the second bunch of undeliverable mail today, the first bunch was a good month or so ago. my password still works.

Someone is getting a hold of possibly the outgoing mail server, or something, and using "my email" to send these out.

anyway to stop this from happening? Its not a person because they would change the password so i no longer have access....

the emails themselves (that are in my sent folder) are spams, completely. the inbox ones are "we couldnt deliver to "blah blah blah ".

how do you protect your outgoing mail server?? how would someone get a hold of your outgoing mail server??

 

Unfortunately, It's likely to be nothing to do with your mail server. It's stupidly simple to forge a sending email address (think of it as a senders address on a normal letter, you can write anything there).

If you look at the headers of the undelivarables you may be able to track down the rogue server but chances are slim that you'll get your email address cleared again.

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