What the.....? Help please

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Bismillahair Rahmaan Niraheem
I see your account is hacked.You should change your password and refrain from giving your email out and junk all mails you do not wish to get. Is gmail good?Here is what I use on hotmail:Get a few emails each day and reply. That is all I do,in that matter is gmail better then hotmail?

Walakum Asalam Warakmatulah Wabarkatuh
 
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Oh, just another quick question- Is there any way I can transfer the old emails from my hotmail account to my gmail one?
 
Ahh yeah brother Banu, think zAk's right, that's just from gmail to gmail.. Ah well, thanks anyway.
 
I think I was able to transfer mail from my hotmail account...if you go to settings and select the 'Accounts' tab, then next to 'Get mail from other accounts', click on "Add a mail account you own" (here - I guess hotmail only recently started supporting POP3 for free accounts). You can transfer mail from up to 5 different accounts, but I remember it took aaages for everything to come over, lol...
 
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Gmail related question:

So I sent an email to X. And I also sent an email to person Y. Now there's this 'conversation' between me, X, and Y. Eh? I replied to each on their own. Did either one get the other's reply, because this is a 'convo'? I've tried seperating them using labels, but they're connected for some reason..

Any thoughts?
 
But I didn't forward anything- they were 2 different emails with 2 different replies, yet they're somehow connected...?
 
crayon said:
Gmail related question:

So I sent an email to X. And I also sent an email to person Y. Now there's this 'conversation' between me, X, and Y. Eh? I replied to each on their own. Did either one get the other's reply, because this is a 'convo'? I've tried seperating them using labels, but they're connected for some reason..

Any thoughts?
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Is it the same email you sent to person X and Y. Gmail groups similar emails together in a kind of tab fashion where on is on top of the other, even if you send them separately. It also groups them together when you reply to each other. Just for convenience. Is this what you mean by 'conversation' ? The grouping ?
 
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Nope, it's 2 different emails.. I guess they got grouped then. I was kind of worried my replies were sent to both of them, but then I checked in the sent messages folder and it was only sent to whomever it was meant to be sent to. So is there no way I can separate them? To put them in 2 different labels?

edit- Ahhh wait. Never mind, I think I got it. It was actually each of their replies to an email I sent them both. D'oih. Thanks anyway, lol.
 
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I logged into my email today to find an unusual amount of new messages. When I checked them, a bunch of them were from the postmaster saying some messages had failed to send. They weren't any messages I had sent. I also had this little notification that my 'vacation reply' is still on; I've never turned it on.
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Basically it is possible to send e-mail out with any possible sender address without having to know the password of this sender. Compare it to regular mail: you can put mail in the postbox with a sender address on it which is not your own.
This is the trick spammers use: they send a large amount of e-mails with a random sender address.

So if you receive bounced from postmaster about mail sent to random people and not to your contacts, your account has probably not been hacked. Someone is just writing your e-mailaddress as sender address on the e-mails they send. There is in fact not much you can do about this.

If the e-mail is send to all of your contacts though, this means the spammer must have access to your contact list. In this case (and only in this case), run a virus scan over your hard disk an change your password.
 

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