how can I deactivate an email account that is not on my computer but thunderbird keeps sending me messages about because someone in germany is using that email
I had an email account with adelphia which was bought out by time warner years ago. I switched everything over. I am now getting mail delivery system errors sent to my under my old email address. Someone is using it in Germany probably as a mass mailer. the error messages are not coming through time warner, I have checked with them. My question is how can I get this old email account deleted from thunderbird's accounts. i have had at least three new computers since I have switched over from adelphia.net to time warner.com
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Thunderbird does not send you messages. It retrieves messages from accounts you add to it. Do you have this old account added to your existing Thunderbird installation?
No I have had numerous new computers and downloaded thunderbird and started fresh. The only thing I did was to export my old email addresses and then import them to my new installation of thunderbird. I can find nothing on my computer dealing with my old email address except the emails I keep getting
Are they being sent to your new address as an email message?
they are not going through my time warner account. I checked with them and there is nothing there. They merely show up in my inbox in thunderbird most as"mail system error - returned mail" sent by mail administrator to my 6+ year old email address. Today I even got a response from someone sent to my old email address. I think it was in German. I have asked a friend to translate it.
I would check the source code of these messages. Email does not just appear in an inbox without being routed there.