Deerek11

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this user is using their personal laptop with an old aol.com account but I do see this a lot so I normally just tell the user to change their email password but I wanted to try to understand what's going on, so when this happens it is tied to that user in some way such as malware on their computer or email account is compromised. I just always wondered if this is a problem that arises from no relationship to the user account nor their computer they have or been using?
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this user is using their personal laptop with an old aol.com account but I do see this a lot so I normally just tell the user to change their email password but I wanted to try to understand what's going on, so when this happens it is tied to that user in some way such as malware on their computer or email account is compromised. I just always wondered if this is a problem that arises from no relationship to the user account nor their computer they have or been using?

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Hello I have a user that contacts in their email account is being spammed by a fake email account with their name but not their email account, so I am thinking that if all of the people on the sent list is from this users email contacts and then it list them as the sender it must have something to do with their account? &nbsp;How is this happening?
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Hello I have a user that contacts in their email account is being spammed by a fake email account with their name but not their email account, so I am thinking that if all of the people on the sent list is from this users email contacts and then it list them as the sender it must have something to do with their account?  How is this happening?

Email account spamming??

Various techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) vs. not rejecting all spam (false negatives) - and the associated costs in time and effort. Anti-spam techniques can be broken into four broad categories: those that require actions by individuals, those that can be automated by email administrators, those that can be automated by email senders and those employed by researchers and law enforcement officials.

AntiSpam

Within Internet message handling services (MHS), a message transfer agent or mail transfer agent (MTA) or mail relay is software that transfers electronic mail messages from one computer to another using a client–server application architecture. A MTA implements both the client (sending) and server (receiving) portions of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The terms mail server, mail exchanger, and MX host may also refer to a computer performing the MTA function. The Domain Name System (DNS) associates a mail server to a domain with mail exchanger (MX) resource records containing the domain name of a host providing MTA services.