Mail is sending spam out on its own!!!

Hi
I have recently been getting a lot of "junk" mail saying "Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender" and "* has detected a suspected spam in a email from you" and "Delivery Status Notification (Failure)".
Now I am obviously not sending any of these emails manually but something seems to be sending them from my system.
Can anyone tell me how I can stop it doing this?
Lee

Was this always the case or did you train the junk filter to do so?
I use spamsieve which does require some training and yes I did train it. But it does recognise spoofed mail returns and it does filter them. It seems recognise what is a genuine bounced back mail and what is comes from a spoofed mail address.
spamsieve is the best filter I know for OSX if your not running your own mail server. If running a mail server your best using spam assasin.

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