Mailer daemon from one of my yahoo email address, message sending failure?

Philippines
June 28, 2011 9:31pm CST
Actually i got 3 yahoo email and 2gmail, I open up one of my yahoo email and i receive in spam box 53 mailer daemon and it says failure notice sending your message, and the fact is i never send emails to anyone, i open up my other account and never receive any mailer daemon, it is just only my one yahoo account that is doing this, Is it a mail failure or mail bad redirection or something like someone is trying to use my account?
5 responses
• Philippines
29 Jun 11
As far as I know, you'll only receive that whenever your message fails to send. It might be that you misspelled the email address of the receiver or the email address of the person you're sending to is already inactive.
@Zaphan (710)
• Philippines
29 Jun 11
yeah it is a notice from yahoo server that your message sending is failed. If you don't send messages to your friends or other contact then maybe it's a server fault or someone is sneaking and using your account in sending messages.
• Philippines
29 Jun 11
That might be the case. I got my email address hacked too way back. I think I forgot to log out when I was browsing in an internet cafe.
• India
3 Jan 13
Hi friend, may be some one used your account and send mails from it or it is just a spam message. Be careful and change your password to avoid unwanted access.
@owlwings (43907)
• Cambridge, England
29 Jun 11
This is quite a common thing. It DOESN'T mean that your account has been hacked or that someone else has used your account! It is relatively easy to change the From: field and the Reply to: field in an email. When you (and most people) send an email, the software will automatically put your own email address in those fields but spammers, in particular, want to hide their real email address, so they use a special software which can fill in those fields with false addresses. Usually they will use a random address from their list of addresses (I have even occasionally received emails which were apparently from me!) and this is what has happened in your case. Clearly, some of the addresses that this spammer sent the email to did'nt exist and so the email clients sent a 'bounce' message to the address listed in the From: field. Unfortunately, there is not a lot you can do about it. Your email address is out there somewhere on some spammer's list and there's no way that you can remove it or have it removed. How it got there is a long story - there are many possibilities and it's now too late to worry about. About the worst thing you can do, however, is to reply to a spammer or respond to their message. That will automatically tell them that your address is valid and you will only get more spam. It's important to understand what these bounce messages are and not to be concerned about them. Just deleting them when you see them is all that you need to do.
@surekharathi (14146)
• India
29 Jun 11
Friend according to my opinion this message is received when you sending mail if failed due to wrong e-mail ID, Id is not exist or server problem. I also received this type of mail more time. So I think you not worry about it. No one is using your account but you should change password and password should be strong. In yahoo you received mailer daemon and in rediff a message is appeared that bounce your mail. If mail is not going.
@Mavic123456 (21891)
• Thailand
6 Dec 12
grrr my yahoo mail did this to me... I have sent several emails and they were answered already. but now they are coming at me after a few days and it has mailer daemon message.. I can't understand for they had been sent as message. after a short while it was not even sent. grrrr