Interviewed by CNN on 06/02/2012 19:08, Louis Paul Toscano told the world: > Friends and Neighbors: Yesterday I noticed an overabundance, for the > first time, of Delivery Status Failures. They were comprised of > messages to me from unfamiliar individuals. They appear to be from all > over the world. At some point I believed that they might be students > involved in some subject related chat. However, some of them are from > sales representatives selling some sort of gaming equipment. All of > these messages are spam, of a kind that I never received until now. > Today I had more of the same, except that I could not log in with the > usual password I set up with my ISP. So, I had to establish a new > password since neither SeaMonkey nor my ISP recognized my old one, which > I used additionally to access my Internet Telephone account. Why is > SeaMonkey suddenly showing these failures, particularly in keeping out > this spam? >
Well, this is happening because some spammer is using your e-mail address as the "from" address. So, messages they send to invalid addresses bounce back to *your* mailbox instead of theirs. Secondly, since you (temporarily) lost access to your mailbox, it might be that your e-mail account was hacked. Or it might be that your ISP detected the unusual amount of bounced messages and *assumed* your account had been hacked, blocking the password on their own. But I would change my password to a longer, harder to guess one anyway. The reason the Seamonkey spam filter let through those messages is that they probably list your e-mail as the original sender. Seamonkey is more tolerant of messages coming from known senders, attributing it a lower "spam" score. The administrative headers also tend to lower the spam score. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Original Macintosh 128kb. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.7 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
