Undeliverable mail

[ladybarbara]

Hello. I am getting bounced back messages in my Outlook Express from Mailer Daemon, Postmaster etc, saying that "User mailbox exceeds allowed size" or with hieroglyphic type writing. I get nearly 20 a day, UK and Europe
I think all the senders think I am sending spam, no one on my own adresses get any.
My computer is "clean", I use AVG
Can you help?
Thank you

[Old_Geezer]

Try sending from a different e-mail account. See if you get the same failure messages.
Also do you get the same no matter what your e-mail's contents ?

[AlBags]

Hi
Log into your ISP mail or webmail (whichever you have) and clean up the spam folder, or any attachments in the other folders that cause very large mailbox. Maybe you have a stuck email with attachment there.
Don't send out anything larger than 10Mb.

[ladybarbara]

No. I am sending no messages, all these incoming messages say that I am.
It just appears that they are bouncing back. I have no idea who all these messages are from
Thank you

[woofgang]

Someone has nicked your email address and is sending mails as though they come from you. This used to happen to me regularly at work as we had carp prevention and a carp iT department. It will eventually stop, just keep deleting the messages. If it really gets difficult then crate another email addy but that's inconvenient, honestly the best thing is to just let it wear itself out. You addy can get nicked from emails sent by others to you...the kind of round robin funnies and stuff. If you do forward any its good practice to chop off all the other email addys on it first.

[woofgang]

"crate?'" no...."create"

[ladybarbara]

Thank you Woofgang, I'll do that - I had about 100 to delete today so I hope you are right!

[squarebear]

You can do nothing about this apart from either deleting them or making a new email address. Email must be the least secure way of sending a message, as anyone can pretend to be anyone else.

Basically, the spammer might have a list of 100,000 email addresses and so he blasts them all with his advert. If these addresses don't exist, he doesn't want to know, so he chooses a random one from the list, in this case yours, and makes that the "from" address. Now any undeliverables get sent back to you.

I once had a spammer use my email address and receieved 5,000+ of these messages a day for about a week. It eventually stopped when they picked some other victim to use.

[ladybarbara]

Thank you Squarebear, I'll keep deleting, many more just now. Suppose they don't stop?

[squarebear]

They will do.

If for some strange reason they don't, all you can do is either set up a message rule directing them to your deleted items or set up a new email address.

I'm sure they will stop though. The spammer will only send his advert out for so long before doing something else.