To spam, or send massive amounts of e-mail to a single person with the intention of crashing his or her computer. A successful mail bomb may cause the victim's disk quota to be exhausted, the disk holding his/her mailbox to fill up, or his/her computer to spend a large portion of its time processing mail.

Sent to urge others to send massive amounts of e-mail to a single system with a goal of crashing the recipient's system.

an attack in which a large number of messages are sent to one mail server or one recipient

an e-mail message that can allegedly cause harm to your computer simply by opening and reading the message

An attempt to get down an email server by sending towards it more messages than it can handle within a short period of time.

An e-mail that is sent, often multiple times, to an enormous number of recipients, urging them to respond to a single system or person. The result can often overload and crash a system.

A large number of e-mails or a huge e-mail sent with malicious intent to clog a user's e-mail box. Mail bombs are often sent in reprisal for a breach of netiquette.

An orchestrated attempt to shut down a mail server by sending more messages than it can handle in a short period of time. See DOS.

Hundreds or thousands of e-mail messages sent to the same address, sometimes to the central posting address of a discussion group causing an avalanche effect and can bring down a server with the heavy load it causes.

An email message sent with the intent to crash the recipient's mail server or mail reader. On many systems, this can result in the cancellation of the bomber's account. A person can unintentionally crash their message recipient's mail server or mail reader by attaching files that are too large or that are not supported by the recipient's mail server. So, don't send files that require browser attachments, and if you have to send a large file, you may want to zip it first

An email containing a large file or files designed to jam an ISPs server and/or the recipient's mail program. Once a bomb is opened, depending on the size of the file it contains, it can take hours to load. With many ISPs, a user's penalty for mail bombing is discontinuation of service.

The act of sending large numbers of large email messages to the same server or email address in an attempt to cause heavy loads which result in performance loss or server failure.

An excessively large amount of e-mail data sent to a user's e-mail address in an attempt to make the user's e-mail program crash or to prevent the user from receiving further legitimate messages.

An e-mail message sent with the intent to crash the recipients mailserver or mailreader. Mail bombing is a form of electronic harrassment and can on many systems result in the cancellation of the bomber's account.

The malicious act of sending an excessive amount of email to an individual, making the victim's email box inaccessible. See SPAM.

A "Denial of Service" (DoS) attack that entails flooding the victim's mailbox with a large volume of email, in an attempt to disrupt the victim's service. This kind of attack is a violation of virtually all Internet service providers' contracts, and can even be illegal. Spammers will sometimes use this tactic in retaliation against someone who reports them for their abuse. This is one reason why giving your address to the spammer for "removal" can be dangerous... especially if the spammer can associate your removal request with an abuse report that you previously filed. This is also one reason why spam-reporting services like SpamCop remove your address from ("munge") spam reports you send through it. See also Joe Job.

A form of denial-of-service attack that shuts down e-mail servers by swamping them with more e-mail than they can handle.

A very large email message (or a large number of smaller messages) that clog up the email system of the recipient.

massive amounts of email sent to a single system or individual. This is usually done to crash the user's system. Mail bombing is one step beyond flaming and can on many systems result in the cancellation of the bomber's account.

Massive amounts of electronic mail sent to a single person, with malicious intent to overload the recipient's system.Mail bombing can cause problems not only for the targeted recipient, but also for other users of the networks involved.