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[bentaxle]

i have this email from ( mailer daemon @ yaho ) subject failure notice ,and ive been told not to open emails i dont recognise, does anybody know what this is about or shall i just delete it and forget it ,probably a basic question but have pitty on us oldies,all the best

[ChuckFickens]

it is probably a notification that an email you have sent recently was addressed incorrectly. and hasn't been delivered.

Without checking the headers can't say that for sure though, if your worried delete it but if somebody says to you at some point "I never got that mail from you" you will know what it was about.

If you either use yahoo as your email or send a lot of emails to yahoo addresses then your probably safe to have a look at it.

[bentaxle]

Thank you chuck ,i do use yahoo and this is the second one of these ive had over the last few months ,i deleted the last one and nothing bad happened ,so i think i wll do the same ,thank you for your advice ,and all the best

[gen2]

Another possibility is that a Spammer has picked your email address to use as a return address on spam being sent out. That way, if a recipient's address doesn't exist, the bounced email doesn't go back to the spammer (and clutter up their inbox) - it goes to your email account instead.

[bentaxle]

Thank you gen I had deleted it by now ,and will continue to do the same to all unrecognised mails .
all the best

[eah]

bentaxle..have had a couple of these myself and apparently it means that an e- mail that you`ve sent did not get to the intended person.....in my case it was because I`d typed the address in wrongly just by one letter./punctuation mark...just learning myself too....HTH...

[bentaxle]

It does, thanks eah