'Unusual activity' detected every day?

I'm having something of a problem with my email. I keep getting emails from Yahoo's mailer daemon telling me about failed emails that I didn't send. I have eliminated all possibility of this being down to having some kind of trojan or other malware on my PC, so this means that either BT/Yahoo's system is getting hacked further up the line or (more likely) my email is being spoofed. However, this would only be slightly irritating and solved by simply deleting the emails (there's never more than about a dozen) except for one thing - BT/Yahoo's system seems to be detecting these emails as 'unusual activity' and forcing me to change my password at least once a day, sometimes more. Given that I've gone through several different passwords, all of which haven't made the blindest bit of difference to this 'unusual activity', and there appears to be nothing I can do to fix this, is there any way I can bypass this prompt to change my password?

Zmidponk wrote:
I'm having something of a problem with my email. I keep getting emails from Yahoo's mailer daemon telling me about failed emails that I didn't send. I have eliminated all possibility of this being down to having some kind of trojan or other malware on my PC, so this means that either BT/Yahoo's system is getting hacked further up the line or (more likely) my email is being spoofed. However, this would only be slightly irritating and solved by simply deleting the emails (there's never more than about a dozen) except for one thing - BT/Yahoo's system seems to be detecting these emails as 'unusual activity' and forcing me to change my password at least once a day, sometimes more. Given that I've gone through several different passwords, all of which haven't made the blindest bit of difference to this 'unusual activity', and there appears to be nothing I can do to fix this, is there any way I can bypass this prompt to change my password?
Hi.
Your post seems to confirm my suspicion that Critical Path (the new mail provider for BTinternet) might be causing the problem about the need for password changes.
As you correctly say, the bounce messages are due to your email address being spoofed/forged in a spam run. There is nothing you can do to prevent this.
I feel that the moderators need to question Critical Path about their methods in this regard.
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