how do i stop junk mail on thunderbird

[Guest JohnA]

So over the last 2 days, have been bombarded by a spam email with the following heading

 

Delivery Status Notification (Delay)

 

This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification.

THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY.

YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE.

Delivery to the following recipients has been delayed.

<m.guillermond@free.fr>

The reason for the problem:
4.3.0 - Other mail system problem 451-'too many errors from your ip (150.101.137.141), please visit http://postmaster.free.fr/'
 

 

Reporting-MTA: dns; ipmail04.adl6.internode.on.net

Final-Recipient: rfc822;m.guillermond@free.fr
Action: delayed
Status: 4.0.0 (temporary failure)
Remote-MTA: dns; [212.27.48.7]
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 4.3.0 - Other mail system problem 451-'too many errors from your ip (150.101.137.141), please visit http://postmaster.free.fr/' (delivery attempts: 5)
Will-Retry-Until: 06 Nov 2013 02:50:41 +1030

 

 

there is also an attachment to this email named: RealP harm Made -upNi ce Cial is.eml

 

which of course i did not click on

 

 

i got 55 of then last night

 

 

i have scanned for viruses and found nothing, so looks like this email account may have been hacked??

[Krispy Audio]

55! ouch.

[Guest JohnA]

55! ouch.

 

another 10 in the last 10 minutes

 

think i may just delete the account

[Krispy Audio]

Subscribed to any questionable websites lately John? 

[Guest JohnA]

Subscribed to any questionable websites lately John? 

 

 

never use my main email addresses for any of that stuff, thats what my yahoo one is for

[Telecine]

Try this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Junk_Mail_Controls

[Guest JohnA]

Try this:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Junk_Mail_Controls

 

 

thanks mate, much appreciated

[bwhitesox]

another 10 in the last 10 minutes

 

think i may just delete the account

 

The reason you are getting the bounce backs is because one of two reasons;

 

1 - Someone is spoofing your email address and sending emails from you.

2 - Your email password has been compromised and someone has logged into email as you.

 

I would change your email password ASAP and the bounce backs will start to slow down.

[JeffK]

Sounds like backscatter.  John if you ask your question here www.emaildiscussions.com you will probably get a better answer.

 

Bwhitesox' Item 1 is the most likely - a spammer has your email address and is using it to spam <m.guillermond@free.fr> who has a spam blocker which is sending back those messages to your email account.  I can't remember how specifically but you should be able to set up a filter in Thunderbird which deletes those backscatter messages.

Edited November 1, 2013 by JeffK

[JeffK]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email) - not particularly useful

[Guest JohnA]

cheers for the info guys

 

have now changed my password, so lets see what happens

[Guest JohnA]

seems to have slowed down now..

 

havent had any more since this morning

 

fingers crossed its over