Octan
2nd November 2007, 04:41
I wasn't sure where to put this exactly.
Anyway, I went to upload a new GIF today, only to be informed that I was out of disk space. That kind of surprised me; hard to believe I had reached my 100 Meg limit already. So I poked around to see if there was anyplace that said where all this space was going, and that's when I found It: my mailbox. The one I've never used and was only ever vaguely aware I even had. Despite having never given out the address used by this mail account (in fact, I don't even know what it is), there were 8,000 spam messages in there, along with a great many Mailer Daemon errors, which means not only have spambots found the account, they have hacked into it as well.
Anywho, rather than go through the rigmarole of setting up filtering and junk or asking how the hell my email address got out in the first place (*ahem*), can I just request that the email service be removed from my hosting account altogether? I never use it and I never will, and clearly it's only causing problems for me.
Anyway, I went to upload a new GIF today, only to be informed that I was out of disk space. That kind of surprised me; hard to believe I had reached my 100 Meg limit already. So I poked around to see if there was anyplace that said where all this space was going, and that's when I found It: my mailbox. The one I've never used and was only ever vaguely aware I even had. Despite having never given out the address used by this mail account (in fact, I don't even know what it is), there were 8,000 spam messages in there, along with a great many Mailer Daemon errors, which means not only have spambots found the account, they have hacked into it as well.
Anywho, rather than go through the rigmarole of setting up filtering and junk or asking how the hell my email address got out in the first place (*ahem*), can I just request that the email service be removed from my hosting account altogether? I never use it and I never will, and clearly it's only causing problems for me.