[Mailman-Users] Sevier Issue with mails, are these compromised?

[Larry Stone]

On Mon, 14 May 2012, Amit Bhatt wrote:

> Today, I've got an E-Mail from them saying that as per the mail policy, 
> our members can send 500 mails per hour but we are exceeding the number 
> of mails a day!

> While the fact is we have around 360 members and we send hardly 50 to 60 
> messages in entire day of 24:00.

> so, I am unable to understand what's wrong with us. Are some of our 
> mails account got hacked and compromised?

I suspect you don't understand how emails are counted. Each list message 
to each recipinet probably counts as one email. If I'm understanding you 
correctly, your are sending 50 to 60 messages per day to 360 users. 50 
times 360 is 18,000 outgoing messages per day.

> Hostgator team has send me the number of messages and Email addresses sent from:
> --------------------------
> sayeverything-bounces at sayeverything.org: 11,655

That fits with my assumption above.

-- Larry Stone
    lstone19 at stonejongleux.com