What does Unsuccessful sync mean in my email recent activity page?

blackcloud

Hello all

I checked on the "recent activity page" on my emails and I noticed that 4 times over the past 3 weeks on various times and dates and from various countries around the world there were attempts to get into my email address, however they were Unsuccessful. I sometimes get ones where it says incorrect password entered from some random place around the world and I have made my emails as secure as possible. But I just noticed a different one, one which says "Automatic Sync" and then lists under that 4 attempts to I presume log into my emails from 4 separate times and different countries next to each of them it says "Type: Unsuccessful sync" and "ProtocolIMAP" What does this mean does anyone know? Is it something more sinister than just a "wrong Password" entered random attempt from somewhere around the world?

bengalknights

It means your email address was used on applications such as outlook or thunderbird to try and download emails but it failed.

blackcloud

You mean someone tried to get emails from my email account?