An Outgoing Email From My Desktop Starts Randomly

baumgrenze · 2026-07-04T12:06:12-0400

In July I've begun seeing the 'automatic' display of an outgoing email.

Out of caution I've not adding a Subject and Body Text.

Malwarebytes Free finds nothing. Windows Security finds nothing.

Is there a clever way to view the message source. I've found this helpful then the email in incoming but don't see how to invoke it for an outgoing emails.

Thanks
baumgrenze

OAT · 2026-07-04T12:12:22-0400

baumgrenze said:
In July I've begun seeing the 'automatic' display of an outgoing email.

Out of caution I've not adding a Subject and Body Text.

Malwarebytes Free finds nothing. Windows Security finds nothing.

Is there a clever way to view the message source. I've found this helpful then the email in incoming but don't see how to invoke it for an outgoing emails.

Thanks
baumgrenze

It should be in your 'Sent' box if it was outgoing.

kelper · 2026-07-04T12:12:23-0400

I don't understand; can you post a screenshot?

HeavyHemi · 2026-07-04T12:33:49-0400

baumgrenze said:
In July I've begun seeing the 'automatic' display of an outgoing email.

Out of caution I've not adding a Subject and Body Text.

Malwarebytes Free finds nothing. Windows Security finds nothing.

Is there a clever way to view the message source. I've found this helpful then the email in incoming but don't see how to invoke it for an outgoing emails.

Thanks
baumgrenze

Is this by chance a draft email that you accidentally created and is being opened by the program when you start Windows?

glasskuter · 2026-07-04T12:45:08-0400

I was thinking the same as above poster. Delete everything in your drafts folder. I would also clear browser cookies and cache.

baumgrenze · 2026-07-04T13:48:11-0400

Thanks for the ideas. I see I should have been more specific.

I have the desktop running. Sometimes before I can do anything, an outgoing email appears; sometimes I'm engaged with doing something.

A new outgoing email appears that is always to: [email protected].

A search gives profitstrategyalerts.com an approximately 50% trust rating.

Thanks
baumgrenze

baumgrenze · 2026-07-04T13:57:17-0400

The compose box appears unbidden.

Perhaps I used the wrong term. Here is what I see.

Is this perhaps a 'push notification' that I somehow permitted?

If true, how do I withdraw permission?

Thanks
baumgrenze

Kees · 2026-07-04T14:08:50-0400

You should take away your mailadress from the picture. And because only have restricted time to edit your post, I advice you to delete the whole pic from your post as soon as possible and put it back with blended mailaddres lateron.

Edwin · 2026-07-04T14:20:14-0400

What mail program is that?
I don't recognize what looks to be a fountain pen icon in the upper left corner.
Perhaps uninstall the entire program and reinstall it.

baumgrenze · 2026-07-04T14:29:58-0400

Kees said:
You should take away your mailadress from the picture. And because only have restricted time to edit your post, I advice you to delete the whole pic from your post as soon as possible and put it back with blended mailaddres lateron.

Thank you, Kees, for catching this glaring error.
baumgrenze

baumgrenze · 2026-07-04T14:33:46-0400

Edwin said:
What mail program is that?
I don't recognize what looks to be a fountain pen icon in the upper left corner.
Perhaps uninstall the entire program and reinstall it.

Thanks, Edwin,

I meant to include this. It is SeaMonkey

baumgrenze

KevTech · 2026-07-04T14:34:20-0400

Might be something in startup.

Right-click taskbar and select task manager

Then look at the startup tab.

MachineLanguage · 2026-07-04T14:43:59-0400

additional research suggests this "If SeaMonkey is sending emails automatically, something malicious is acting on their system or account. It’s not a normal SeaMonkey feature, and it’s not a harmless glitch."

Edwin · 2026-07-04T14:44:39-0400

Might be a highjacker of some sort!
In the Registry, look under:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
or
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
for anything suspicious pertaining to the issue and delete it.

Kees · 2026-07-04T15:23:51-0400

baumgrenze said:
Thank you, Kees, for catching this glaring error.

I'm afraid you did not delete the attachment itself. It's still in the post:

(I blurred part of the mailadress in the pict I posted now.)

You might send @z3r010 a private message and ask him to delete the attachment.

z3r010 · 2026-07-04T15:29:06-0400

Kees said:
You might send @z3r010 a private message and ask him to delete the attachment.

That’s never the solution—if something needs attention, use the post report button so any staff member online can handle it, rather than waiting for someone who might be offline for hours.

antspants · 2026-07-04T15:40:06-0400

Interesting, I had never heard of this program. I think I'll install it and see how it works.

The SeaMonkey email program (SeaMonkey Mail & Newsgroups) is run and maintained by the SeaMonkey Council, a community-driven team of developers who oversee the project. The suite receives legal backing and infrastructure support from the Mozilla Foundation, which originally spun off the project after discontinuing the Mozilla Application Suite

antspants · 2026-07-04T15:50:46-0400

I uninstalled it within 3 minutes. It was like traveling back to the 1990's when AOL looked cool.

What is it about that program that you like?

antspants · 2026-07-04T15:51:22-0400

@Edwin, did you try it?

antspants · 2026-07-04T16:05:37-0400

SeaMonkey Mail apparently has a quirk: If the user starts composing a message, closes the window without sending, and SeaMonkey has auto‑save drafts enabled, it will silently save the message as a Draft.

Later, when SeaMonkey starts, it may auto‑restore that unsent draft into a compose window.This looks exactly like:

“SeaMonkey is automatically displaying an outgoing email I never finished.”

I don't believe it's malware. It’s a leftover draft being reopened. What you may be seeing is an auto‑saved drafts being reopened, not mail being sent. This has been going on (Apparently) for a while. What I read says SeaMonkey Mail’s behavior has not changed since 2010–2015.

The auto‑save mechanism is the same.The draft‑restore logic is the same.The compose window handling is the same.

My personal opinion is dump that program and use Thunderbird (Mozilla) or another app?

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