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Someone hacked Tbird email acct. Hundreds of mailer daemons, how do I fix this?

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copy of one of the mailer daemon This message was created automatically by the mail system (ecelerity).

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

>>> billkamloops@live.ca (after RCPT TO): 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable


Reporting-MTA: dns; cdptpa-oedge02 Arrival-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:31:57 +0000

Status: 5.0.0 Final-Recipient: rfc822; billkamloops@live.ca Remote-MTA: dns; mx3.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable Action: failed Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:31:57 +0000

copy of one of the mailer daemon This message was created automatically by the mail system (ecelerity). A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: >>> billkamloops@live.ca (after RCPT TO): 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable Reporting-MTA: dns; cdptpa-oedge02 Arrival-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:31:57 +0000 Status: 5.0.0 Final-Recipient: rfc822; billkamloops@live.ca Remote-MTA: dns; mx3.hotmail.com Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable Action: failed Last-Attempt-Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 22:31:57 +0000

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Someone hacked Tbird email acct.

What exactly makes you believe your account has been hacked?

Hundreds of mailer daemons

What's more likely is that a spammer used your email address to send spam messages to random recipients, and now you do get the undeliverable notifications. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28email%29

how do I fix this?

Wait until it stops. In the mean time you may want to filter those messages.

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Someone hacked Tbird email acct.

What exactly makes you believe your account has been hacked?

Hundreds of mailer daemons

What's more likely is that a spammer used your email address to send spam messages to random recipients, and now you do get the undeliverable notifications. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_%28email%29

how do I fix this?

Wait until it stops. In the mean time you may want to filter those messages.