The act of sending dozens of identical e-mails to the same person, often as an act of aggression. The intent can be to cost that person some time to clean out his mailbox, or to crash his system.
A mail bomb is the sending of a massive amount of email to a specific person or system. A huge amount of mail may simply fill up the recipient's disk space on the server or, in some cases, may be too much for a server to handle and may cause the server to stop functioning.
Malicious code sent to an unsuspecting user via email.
The mail sent to urge others to send massive amounts of e-mail to a single system or person, with the intent to crash the recipient's system. Mailbombing is widely regarded as a serious offense.
The act of sending massive amounts of email to a single address with the malicious intent of disrupting the system of the recipient. Mailbombing is considered a serious breach of Netiquette and is probably illegal.
n. Excessively large e-mail (typically many thousands of messages) or one large message sent to a user's e-mail account, for the purpose of crashing the system, or preventing genuine messages from being received. v. To send a mailbomb.
One or more very large emails, sent to someone maliciously to stop them being able to use their mailbox and/or internet connection, because all the available bandwidth is being used up downloading the mailbomb(s). Most ISPs will close down any account responsible for mailbombing. See also DoS (Denial of Service).
When someone attempts to send so much mail to a mailbox that the target mailbox becomes overloaded, that mailbox becomes inaccessible. This can sometimes cripple or shut down the server that manages that mailbox. This is an illegal activity, and done by people with malicious intentions.
A mailbomb (or mail bomb), also called parcel bomb or letter bomb, is an explosive device sent via the postal service, and designed to explode when opened, injuring or killing the recipient, usually someone the sender has a personal grudge against, or more indiscriminately as part of a terrorist campaign. Some countries have agencies the job of which is in part the interdiction of mailbombs and the investigation of mailbombings.
