What the.....? Help please

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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.

So basically, my email was sending out loads of spam to all of my contacts, and people I don't know as well. This is the message that was being sent

Hey ,friend
I find a site to sell electronic products with very good price. Laptop ,iPhone even Motorcycle are very popular .their products are original quality with very low price as wholesale business supplier.They also can do retail business for end user now. maybe it is fit for your business . if you like you can contact them : www.ele-stores.com
E-mail: [email protected]
Msn : [email protected]
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What on earth?
What should I do now? Change my password?
 
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Did you sign up to any ele (the company) news letters? I've received crap like this from members who have; those members do NOT send the email; the company does...on ''behalf'' of its members...

Check if you are a member of that site; if so go into the user/account options - should be some sort of check boxes or something to disable 'vacation reply'.
 
I've never even seen that site before.

I disabled vacation reply on my email, but what's to say they won't enable it right back? How did they do this in the first place?

Gah, they sent it to all my uni contacts as well, admissions and student accounts and all that. Ugh.
 
that happened to my dad too, everyone on his contact got a spam email from him which he had never sent. First I urge you to send everyone on your contact an email saying to ignore the previous email, delete it. and perhaps, just change your password. I don't think there is too much you can do.
 
^Yup, already sent everyone an apology and explanation.. Guess I'll just change the password now.
Jazakum Allah khair, all of you.:)
 
i hope you're not one of those people who set their password to their fav tv shows and then complain why did i get hacked ..why me
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you have to set it to something like this


QoQxOq19929919AQioiiioo9090KBwdfgatq

in other words make it strong so it doesnt get bypassed
 
Lol no, I hardly ever put my email up unless it's really needed, and even then I have an account just for spam.

Yeah, that's a great password... I can barely remember my uni account password which is somewhat like that, only like 6 characters long...:><:

'Abd al Rahman- I have a gmail account, I find it annoying for some reason... I love how much space it has, though.
 
crayon said:
'Abd al Rahman- I have a gmail account, I find it annoying for some reason... I love how much space it has, though.
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Oh man, don't get me started! Gmail has to be the most awesome email provider out there..! Plus it has these really awesome skins too!
 
'Abd al-Rahman said:
Oh man, don't get me started! Gmail has to be the most awesome email provider out there..! Plus it has these really awesome skins too!
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Haha. Okay, I've logged into it now after being reminded of it- can't even remember the last time I checked it. I'm using 1% of my 7340 MB. Wow.

Question- How do I make a folder? Can't seem to find a button that says that..
 
crayon said:
Haha. Okay, I've logged into it now after being reminded of it- can't even remember the last time I checked it. I'm using 1% of my 7340 MB. Wow.

Question- How do I make a folder? Can't seem to find a button that says that..
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Folders are 20th century. Now it's labels :shade:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=118708

Plus, you can make all your other email accounts' emails come to Gmail, get automatically sorted, labeled, colored, and placed in the place you want to view at your own convenience.
 
crayon said:
Haha. Okay, I've logged into it now after being reminded of it- can't even remember the last time I checked it. I'm using 1% of my 7340 MB. Wow.

Question- How do I make a folder? Can't seem to find a button that says that..
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Not sure about 'folders' as such, but you can create labels, and you can label your emails. Those labels appear on the left hand side, and when you click on one, all the emails with that particular label appear.

There should be a label tab at the top.

EDIT: Ach ^^... Abd-al Rahman beat me to it!
 
Banu_Hashim said:
Not sure about 'folders' as such, but you can create labels, and you can label your emails. Those labels appear on the left hand side, and when you click on one, all the emails with that particular label appear.

There should be a label tab at the top.

EDIT: Ach ^^... Abd-al Rahman beat me to it!
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'Abd al-Rahman said:
Folders are 20th century. Now it's labels :shade:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=118708

Plus, you can make all your other email accounts' emails come to Gmail, get automatically sorted, labeled, colored, and placed in the place you want to view at your own convenience.
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Aha. I see. I like. Very much.

I've made it so my the emails from my hotmail accounts go to gmail- are there any downsides to this? Or is it exactly the same had I been using hotmail? It's so nice having everything in just one account.

I think I have just been converted to gmail-ism. I'm so easily swayed.:><:

So are there any other cool features gmail has??

Oh, and jazakum Allah khair!
 
No exactly the same. You can even sync your gmail with your hotmail, so you send an email from your gmail address (default) or hotmail address, using just your gmail account. You can do that with multiple emails.

And there's lots of cool features! You just go to their lab feature place (I'll find a link for you inshallah) and you can add the different features they develop all the time.

EDIT: Ah!... If you go to "Settings"... then click on the "labs" tab... you can find lots of cool stuff..:)

crayon said:
I think I have just been converted to gmail-ism. I'm so easily swayed.:><:
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Welcome to the club. :shade:
 
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yh had the same problem with loads of these postmaster messages coming up every day, so hotmail adivsed me to change my password and that ended it straight away
 

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