Nullmailer in /var/log/syslog

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Published on 2012-06-12T14:55:47Z Indexed on 2012/10/31 17:14 UTC
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I'm getting a lot of messages like these:

me@home:/etc/snmp$ tail /var/log/syslog
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[1238]: Starting delivery: protocol: smtp host: mail. file: 1339502401.24665
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[7086]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[1238]: Sending failed:  Host not found
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[1238]: Starting delivery: protocol: smtp host: mail. file: 1339174804.27614
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[7087]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[1238]: Sending failed:  Host not found
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[1238]: Starting delivery: protocol: smtp host: mail. file: 1339324201.21737
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[7088]: smtp: Failed: Connect failed
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[1238]: Sending failed:  Host not found
Jun 12 17:52:15 home nullmailer[1238]: Delivery complete, 331 message(s) remain.

The problem is, I don't recall sending anything. How do I find out which software is sending these messages? How do I read them?

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