Email bombing is the process of sending large number of mails into someone's mailbox, with an intent to affect the operating system of a computer or a network. Email bombing is also termed as email flooding, as the targeted mailbox is flooded with a barrage of mails. When your mailbox is flooded with unwanted and junk emails, your mailbox capacity will get exhausted and you won't be able to receive any mails further. This action prevents you from reading the legitimate mails. Email bombing can even be used to completely overload any company's mail server. Email bombing is done intentionally with an intent to affect the DOS (Disk Operating System) of a computer.
The intensity of email bombing can also result in crashing of the operating system and the mail servers. It has the capacity to consume the whole system. By limiting the user quota to a certain capacity, it can help to restrict the overflow of email bombs. The hacker aims to shut down the website of a victim, by sending email bombs. The first known incident of email bombing was done by Tamil guerrilla groups against the Sri Lankan government. Tamil guerrillas swamped the system of Sri Lankan embassies with an email containing the message ~ "We are the Internet Black Tigers and we're doing this to disrupt your communications".
The intensity of email bombing can also result in crashing of the operating system and the mail servers. It has the capacity to consume the whole system. By limiting the user quota to a certain capacity, it can help to restrict the overflow of email bombs. The hacker aims to shut down the website of a victim, by sending email bombs. The first known incident of email bombing was done by Tamil guerrilla groups against the Sri Lankan government. Tamil guerrillas swamped the system of Sri Lankan embassies with an email containing the message ~ "We are the Internet Black Tigers and we're doing this to disrupt your communications".
