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Old September 2nd 08, 10:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
smudge
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Default Thousands of Outlook messages!

Everytime I open Outlook Express, I'm getting loads of e-mails that have
apparently been returned to me.
They all come up saying Undelivered Mail Return To Sender or Mailer-Daemon.
Please can anyone help???
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Old September 2nd 08, 10:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Dori A Schmetterling
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Default Thousands of Outlook messages!

I bet you have been impersonated. Somebody/something is sending spam in
your name. Or even maybe your computer is being misused.

Occasionally I get such messages, returning to me stuff I never sent.

Since mechanically-produced spam is sent to thousands or millions of
randomly-generated addresses, many of which will be non-existent, one would
expect a lot of rejections.

You seem to be suffering an extreme case.

Report it to your ISP.

DAS
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"smudge" wrote in message
news
Everytime I open Outlook Express, I'm getting loads of e-mails that have
apparently been returned to me.
They all come up saying Undelivered Mail Return To Sender or
Mailer-Daemon.
Please can anyone help???



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Old September 3rd 08, 01:09 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Bruce Hagen
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Default Thousands of Outlook messages!

Someone is using your e-mail address to spoof the From field to send spam,
or it is coming from a virus infected computer. *Usually*, this stops after
a few days.
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Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
Imperial Beach, CA


"smudge" wrote in message
news
Everytime I open Outlook Express, I'm getting loads of e-mails that have
apparently been returned to me.
They all come up saying Undelivered Mail Return To Sender or
Mailer-Daemon.
Please can anyone help???


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Old September 3rd 08, 03:52 AM posted to microsoft.public.windows.inetexplorer.ie6_outlookexpress
Michael Santovec
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Default Thousands of Outlook messages!

Those can be one of 4 things:
1) Some spammer is sending the original messages and using your e-mail
address as the sender.
2) Someone else has a PC infected with a virus and the virus is sending
itself as the original message and using your e-mail address as the
sender.
3) The message is the virus itself, pretending to be a returned mail.
4) Your PC is infected with a virus and it has been sending itself. And
this is really a returned mail that your PC sent.

In cases 1, 2, and 3 above, the messages are not coming from your PC and
are not going through your e-mail account. There's nothing you can do
to prevent anyone from sending an e-mail with your e-mail address as the
From header, just as you can't prevent anyone from sending a postal mail
and putting your name and address as the return address. At this point
all you can do is filter out the messages. Your ISP may offer some
filtering at the mail server.

To make sure that case 4 above is not the cause, you should check your
PC with an updated anti-virus program.


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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"smudge" wrote in message
news
Everytime I open Outlook Express, I'm getting loads of e-mails that
have
apparently been returned to me.
They all come up saying Undelivered Mail Return To Sender or
Mailer-Daemon.
Please can anyone help???



 




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