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Mac Mail has been taken over!!
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Clovis, CA
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I'm not sending these e-mails; someone or something else is doing it.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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That is called Backscatter, and it is not a problem with Mac Mail.
I take it these messages are all spam?
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Clovis, CA
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Yes sir it's all spam. What can I do to make it stop?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by Merkava_4
Yes sir it's all spam. What can I do to make it stop?
Nothing, really, beyond looking at the full headers of this and determining whether the person sending these was from a different IP address than your machine (as is most definitely the case). If the IP address is indeed different, there really isn't much you can do beyond possibly setting up a rule to move bounce messages from the Yahoo postmaster address elsewhere, but this would also affect legitimate bounce messages from Yahoo that might be of use to you, so I wouldn't recommend that.
Do you know how to access the full headers of a message? If so, feel free to copy and paste your message in here. You can replace your email address with something else for your privacy if you wish.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Clovis, CA
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I changed the password in my Yahoo mail account; hopefully that'll take care of the problem.
Thanks to all of you who have replied.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by Merkava_4
I changed the password in my Yahoo mail account; hopefully that'll take care of the problem.
Unfortunately that most likely won't accomplish a single thing. This is also fortunate in a way though, because if that were to accomplish anything that would mean that your account was compromised, which would be quite bad. The probability is exceedingly high that it wasn't.
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: U.K.
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Set up rules in Mail preferences to delete these before appearing.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by MacNNUK
Set up rules in Mail preferences to delete these before appearing.
Although understand that, again, doing so will delete legitimate bounce messages from Yahoo too.
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