Why are comments using email?

Question

I just got a notice today, from my mail gun email account,that I have used nearly 10,000 emails  checking the logs it shows most of them are comments, using the default email I used to sit up the account with mail gun I do not even use that email account of the site, when I went to check the web email there was nothing in it what so ever anyone have any ideal what may be going on ?

Answer 1

Try to update your email password and wait for coming message?

Answer 2

By default when you post anything there is a checkbox to email you any replies (e.g. comments on your answer). So most likely what's happened is that every comment and answer on your site is sending an email to at least one person, maybe more.

You can turn that off using the option in Admin > Posting, so that the box is not checked by default.