[Solved] 'mail' Folder Taking Up Disk Space

[blogzon]

Hi,

 

I have a site hosted at heliohost.org. My username at heliohost is blogzon and my website url is http://www.hdvideocameraworld.com/.

 

There is an issue with my disk space usage. My mail space occupies around 40mb, which is surprising, as I don't have that many mails in my inbox. When I checked through file manager, I found out that a folder titled 'new' located inside the 'mail' folder (located in the root), was occupying that space. There are around 2000 files accumulated inside the 'new' folder that occupy the space. I tried deleting the files, but they keep coming back. These seem like automated delivery-fail mails, addressed to a frogan@gmx.com. I' unable to undertstand the reason for these mails. Could you please assist in solving this issue, as I think my disk space is being used unnecessarily..Thanks

[Byron]

It sounds like somebody is using your account to send spam. Change your password and then clear all of your emails and see if that takes care of it.

[blogzon]

Thanks for the response, will try this out.

[blogzon]

I deleted all the accumulated files inside the folder 'new' and changed the account as well as email password yesterday, but again today these files have appeared. Though the disk space is not adding up quickly, I guess if I leave these files to gather, eventually the used space will increase. I need to know what's causing this to happen. Pl help with this.

[Byron]

Can you post one of the emails with headers?

[blogzon]

Thanks for the response, the following is the entire body of the email, appreciate your help.

 

1396526638.H853713P12285.stevie.heliohost.org,S=1613

ASCII mail text

 

Return-path: <>

Envelope-to: blogzon@stevie.heliohost.org

Delivery-date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:03:34 -0700

Received: from mailnull by stevie.heliohost.org with local (Exim 4.69)

id 1WVgN5-00039c-Ho

for blogzon@stevie.heliohost.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:03:26 -0700

X-Failed-Recipients: frogan@gmx.com

Auto-Submitted: auto-replied

From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@stevie.heliohost.org>

To: blogzon@stevie.heliohost.org

Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

Message-Id: <E1WVgN5-00039c-Ho@stevie.heliohost.org>

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:03:26 -0700

 

This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.

 

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its

recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:

 

frogan@gmx.com

SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:<frogan@gmx.com>:

host mx00.gmx.com [74.208.5.4]: 552-Requested mail action aborted:

exceeded storage allocation

552-Quota exceeded.

552 For explanation visit http://postmaster.gmx.com/en/error-messages?ip=%1s&c=quot

 

------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------

 

Return-path: <blogzon@stevie.heliohost.org>

Received: from blogzon by stevie.heliohost.org with local (Exim 4.69)

(envelope-from <blogzon@stevie.heliohost.org>)

id 1WVgMv-00033S-CS

for frogan@gmx.com; Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:03:16 -0700

To: frogan@gmx.com

Subject: http://www.hdvideocameraworld.com

Message-Id: <E1WVgMv-00033S-CS@stevie.heliohost.org>

From: blogzon@stevie.heliohost.org

Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 05:03:16 -0700

 

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[Krydos]

Yeah, it looks like you have some plugin or wordpress setting or malware maybe sending tons of emails from your account. Fix the wordpress so it doesn't try to send thousands of emails and your mailbox will stop filling up.

[Krydos]

Marking this as solved since there has been no response from the account owner in over two weeks. Let us know if you still need help preventing your account from sending spam emails.