Spam sent "as if" from me

This probably doesn't go in the IMac thread..  but too many choices to search for where to put it.. 
Using MAIL, a day ago received some  250 "delivery failure/ daemon" in my in box, but I did not send the messages; I don't think they went to my contacts / friends either, because some one would have alerted me.
This AM received a few more, and see that my internet provider closed my email account for spam.  Worked all this out, but can someone explain to me what kind of email intrustion just happened.  No one has my password; no one else uses my computer(s); Is this a virus on my computer, my email?  (home network is all mac);
I have Norton (not the latest Norton due to firewall issues, but the one before that, but with latest virus definitions, on one computer and it did block something yesterday/ Clam Nav is on laptop, but it did not alert me to anything .   Anyone know what happend --do I have a security breach on my computers/ and or devices?

Sharon Chard-Yaron wrote:
John-- thanks.. can you explain what is server-side-spam protection?
Basically, it is software that resides on an email server to intelligently identify and eradicate spam before it ever reaches you. I don't know what Earthlink uses, if any. If they do not, or if it is ineffective, the account will eventually become clogged with spam, either sent from you (apparently) or sent to you.
For example, in the distant past I used Yahoo mail. It rapidly became completely useless because they did not incorporate any spam protection. It rapidly became so burdened with spam that I had no choice but to abandon the account. 1000+ spam messages every day.
Yahoo has improved markedly since then, but of course we have better options now.

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