On Friday 08 February 2019 15:17:55 Felix Miata wrote: > deloptes composed on 2019-02-08 20:02 (UTC+0100): > > Dan Youngquist wrote: > >> Felix, have you changed your email password since these spams have been > >> showing up on the list showing you as the sender (last 6-8 months or > >> so)? They originate from an Earthlink IP, but a different one than your > >> real emails. �So, I could be wrong, but my guess is your password was > >> compromised and your account is being used to send spams from an > >> Earthlink server, but not from your system. �That theory would be > >> falsified if (a) you have changed your password in that timeframe, or > >> (b) you change it now, and they continue. > >> > >> All that to say, would you mind changing the password on your email > >> account, to see if it stops the spams? > > > > You know in the Matrix, when agent Smith took off his ear plug :) I bet > > Felix has no idea :) > > It could be he is running SMTP on public IP as well and SMTP is not > > configured properly > > I don't know what triggered whatever this is about. The deloptes post I'm > replying to doesn't link to any email I received since yesterday. Trash got > compacted and out last night. The only place I use SMTP is in SeaMonkey. I > have no idea anything to do with the movie Matrix or any of its sequels, > since I've never watched any of them, besides having avoided all of Keanu > Reeves' movies since seeing the original Bill & Ted. > > I did have trouble with this mailing list a long time ago that I was not > able to resolve with Tim until I borrowed someone's gmail account to use to > communicate with Tim. > > I'm often thinking there is a feud going on between Earthlink and Yahoo > that makes each other's email black hole. Currently my trash has 124 items > in it, of which none include yahoo.com in visible headers. > > I'm subscriber to too many email lists to keep track of. Days I get less > than 100 emails are uncommon. 300 isn't unusual. Thus NAICT, Earthlink > email does what I need done. For what it's worth, I used to use Earthlink email myself, and was loath to get rid of it because I had used the same email for ten years, creature of habit that I am. However, I also got hit with terrible spam, although I don't think (or at least I hope) that my address wasn't hijacked for somebody else's spam. I don't know what's going on with your email, and I am not telling you what to do; but when I changed my email address to Gmail, I got ads and sometimes a hassle about logging in from different locations. Then I changed to Zoho, and so far only a few glitches, which their support has helped me to resolve. *fingers crossed* Anyway, there must be some better email service out there. If this is any help ... Bill