Re: weird problem with one mail account in Thunderbird....ISP or what ?
Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca> writes:
> On 05/29/2015 06:52 AM, Mart van de Wege wrote:
>>>
>> It might be possible that someone got hold of your password and is using
>> your ISPs relay to send out spam. I've seen that happen more than once
>> in real life.
>
> They'd need more than my password---Videotron uses an 8-letter
> customer identifier and a password to logon via IMAP/POP3/SMTP. Unless
> they managed to get a hold of both it wouldn't work although I guess
> it's possible (Murphy's Law).
All that is necessary is one login using a wireless network where
someone is running a sniffer, or having a keylogger on your Windows
install (I read you dual-boot?)
I *have* seen this happen; customers who had no idea how their login
credentials got into spammers' hands, yet their account was being used
to relay spam. I'm not saying it is what happened, just that your ISP
might not be entirely wrong.
Have you tried asking them for logging?
Mart
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