You or your wife's email address was in the Bcc field.
The only way to not get the email is to create a message rule, Where the
email is from 'specific' address, Delete from server (or move to a spam
folder and stop processing more rules). You have to add everyone in your
Address Book to the rule.
Any new addresses will have to be added to the rule.
--
Ronald Sommer

"Jennifer" wrote in message
...
I am receiving hundreds of e-mail to ficticious identities in my OE
account.
They can consist of random collections of letters and/or numbers. I
actually
have just two identies - me and my wife. Someone else seems to have
generated these "names". How can I stop this?