Is there a "bot" in my mail?

For about a week now, I've been getting dozens of emails with the subject lines "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)", "Returned mail: see transcript for details", "failure notice" and even one "Undeliverable: bandit thump".
These messages have nothing to do with anything I have sent or received and are to and from unfamiliar senders and recipients.
My guess is that there's a manevelent program trying to ping its source from my account or something like that. Either way, the volume of these messages and their sudden appearance has raised a big red flag for me and a slew of questions.
Maybe this is a security question. Maybe it's just a newfangled form of spam. I haven't noticed any evidence of a destructive worm or other malfeasance. But I can only assume the sources are up to no good. Much of this is way over my head, but if anyone can shed some light in layman's terms, i'd appreciate it.

Maybe this is a security question.
Or maybe some friend of yours, a computer user that dwells in the Windows world, has a serious security problem and his/hers addresses have been taken and are being used to send messages. We don't have virus but we suffer the consequences.

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