Mac mail program hacked?

I'm afraid I'm not posting this in the right place - but any advice would be welcome.
I think my mail program/mac.com email account has been hacked. I am recieving around 10 postmaster notifications every day that emails are returned undeliverable - but they are emails I never sent and are not in my sent itmes (or on iCloud). I have changed my password for my mac account, changed it for my computer, and have run a ClamXav scan and found nothing. Yet the emails continue to go out. All my software is up to date.
Here is an example of the email I'm recieving. Note, the email recieptients are not from my contacts - I don't know who they are.
The initial send date is after I changed passwords and scanned the computer. I deleted my email address from the message (replacing with MYEMAILADDRESS).
What should I do? Please help!
Thanks.
This report relates to a message you sent with the following header fields:
Message-id: <***>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:53:08 +0200
From: Shdtazsfl <MYEMAILADDRESS>
To: ***
Subject: wesat
Your message has been enqueued and undeliverable for 1 day
to the following recipients:
Recipient address: ***
Reason: unable to deliver this message after 1 day
Delivery attempt history for your mail:
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:29:09 -0700 (PDT)
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:24:45 -0700 (PDT)
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:21:01 -0700 (PDT)
Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:17:16 -0700 (PDT)
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 20:12:40 -0700 (PDT)
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 16:08:56 -0700 (PDT)
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:05:11 -0700 (PDT)
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 10:01:27 -0700 (PDT)
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 07:57:43 -0700 (PDT)
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:53:44 -0700 (PDT)
The mail system will continue to try to deliver your message
for an additional 3 days.
Original-envelope-id: ***
Reporting-MTA: dns;st11b01mm-asmtp207.mac.com (tcp-daemon)
Arrival-date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:49:42 -0700 (PDT)
Original-recipient: rfc822;***
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I'm surprised that nobody but one of the hosts has taken the time to answer you. Not my area of expertise, but I'll give you some ideas.
I've never run across any case of the Apple Mail application being used in this way without physical access to your computer over by controlling it remotely over a network. All a spammer really needs is your e-mail address (which I suppose is what the host removed for you) and he can send tons of e-mail out that appears to come from you, some of which doesn't go through and is bounced back to you.
The second biggest way this happens, as you have guessed, is to hack your e-mail account by guessing the password and using that to send spam. Depending on what your preferences are set to, you may be able to tell if this was done if the outgoing messages appear in your "Sent" folder. If you find such messages, you can be assured that they were sent using your e-mail account in some manner. If there you do save sent messages and there is no sign of them, then they are just using your e-mail address.

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