Email Sending on its Own
My account is sending or forwarding out junk emails that I have received. 50 plus a day. It's a pain to delete the notices of the rejection of these outgoing emails. Any ideas on how to stop this outgoing email.
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Are you sure this is happening. What you are describing is backscatter and has nothing to do with your account, only the use of your email address.
Are you sure it's really you, or is it someone spoofing you, that is sending out spam from somewhere else but with you as the apparent sender and/or reply-to address? You can sometimes tell by examining the email headers, though you have to know what to look for.
It's possible that your computer has been infected with a virus/bot that is capable of sending out email without your knowledge. Thunderbird is out of the picture at that point. If you suspect as much, the first thing to do is THOROUGHLY virus-scan your computer.
If if was you sending them, I think you would see signs of it - copies of those messages should be in your Sent folder (although you can set it NOT to.) Besides, Thunderbird doesn't automatically send anything unless you tell it to. An exception can be if you have set your account to respond to Return Receipts automatically, but it doesn't come out of the box that way.
If, as I suspect, it's someone external spoofing you, there's not much you can do about it. You have somehow gotten on someone spammer's list of known-good addresses. In my experience, it will pass, or at least, abate.
While you can't stop them, you can create filters that would automatically delete those rejection notices.