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Thunderbird started sending several random messages

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I am using the latest version of thunderbird and out of the blue thunderbird started sending random emails with large attachments. The messages are attaching pictures from old emails. I am getting somewhere in the range of 50 emails trying to go out. I am not sure how to find out who the recipient is supposed to be. Thunderbird is giving me error messages due to the size of the messages trying to send. The pictures that are trying to be sent are going into the users/name/appdata/local/temp folder. I delete them, restart thunderbird, and after about a minute the same pictures repopulate in that folder. I suspected a worm or virus, however, I have ran antivirus, malware bytes, etc. All say there is no virus. I even had a level 2 tech at norton check my system, twice. I have the same email account with thunderbird setup on my laptop that is operating fine. Does anyone have any ideas what is happening.

I am using the latest version of thunderbird and out of the blue thunderbird started sending random emails with large attachments. The messages are attaching pictures from old emails. I am getting somewhere in the range of 50 emails trying to go out. I am not sure how to find out who the recipient is supposed to be. Thunderbird is giving me error messages due to the size of the messages trying to send. The pictures that are trying to be sent are going into the users/name/appdata/local/temp folder. I delete them, restart thunderbird, and after about a minute the same pictures repopulate in that folder. I suspected a worm or virus, however, I have ran antivirus, malware bytes, etc. All say there is no virus. I even had a level 2 tech at norton check my system, twice. I have the same email account with thunderbird setup on my laptop that is operating fine. Does anyone have any ideas what is happening.

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Not sure why you post this to the Firefox for Android support forum.

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Thanks for letting me know. Just a mistake. It was late, I was tired. Been working on this for two days. I missed the box at the top of my screen to check which forum. I reposted to thunderbird.

Thanks for letting me know.

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And now some helpful admin has moved it to Thunderbird, so I will close it as it is duplicated here https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1281477