I use fetchmail to get my email from yahoo & gmail et al.  Lately I've been 
getting these two messages when fetchmail runs.  What is postfix doing and what 
is it trying to tell me?  Is this something I should fix on my end?  Is postfix 
trying to resend some spam I received from yahoo?  Or is it just having trouble 
delivering spam to my inbox?

I'm running a simple home setup for myself using Fedora 12.  

Transcript of session follows.

 Out: 220 mymachine.mydomain.net ESMTP Postfix
 In:  HELO mymachine
 Out: 250 mymachine.mydomain.net
 In:  MAIL FROM:<>
 Out: 250 2.1.0 Ok
 In:  RCPT TO:<"???B?\" <[email protected]>>
 Out: 501 5.1.3 Bad recipient address syntax
 In:  QUIT
 Out: 221 2.0.0 Bye


For other details, see the local mail logfile


Date: Thu,  8 Apr 2010 13:02:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mail Delivery System <[email protected]>
To: Postmaster <[email protected]>
Subject: Postfix SMTP server: errors from localhost[::1]

Transcript of session follows.

 Out: 220 mymachine.mydomain.net ESMTP Postfix
 In:  EHLO pop-ssl.plus.mail.a06.yahoodns.net
 Out: 250-mymachine.mydomain.net
 Out: 250-PIPELINING
 Out: 250-SIZE
 Out: 250-VRFY
 Out: 250-ETRN
 Out: 250-STARTTLS
 Out: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
 Out: 250-8BITMIME
 Out: 250 DSN
 In:  MAIL FROM:<"???B?\" <[email protected]>> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=2131
 Out: 501 5.1.7 Bad sender address syntax
 In:  RSET
 Out: 250 2.0.0 Ok
 In:  QUIT
 Out: 221 2.0.0 Bye


For other details, see the local mail logfile

This is from /var/log/maillog:

Apr  8 13:02:00 mymachine postfix/smtpd[13072]: connect from localhost[::1]
Apr  8 13:02:00 mymachine postfix/smtpd[13000]: connect from localhost[::1]
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/cleanup[13003]: 00144E02007: 
message-id=<[email protected]>
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/smtpd[13000]: disconnect from localhost[::1]
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/qmgr[21590]: 00144E02007: 
from=<[email protected]>, size=759, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: accepted connection
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: lmtp connection preauth'd as postman
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: duplicate_check: 
<[email protected]> user.john            0
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/cleanup[13003]: 20E23E02009: 
message-id=<[email protected]>
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: duplicate_check: 
<[email protected]> user.john            0
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/qmgr[21590]: 20E23E02009: 
from=<[email protected]>, size=957, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/smtpd[13072]: disconnect from localhost[::1]
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[13071]: accepted connection
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[13071]: lmtp connection preauth'd as postman
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: Delivered: 
<[email protected]> to mailbox: user.john
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: mystore: starting txn 2147490480
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: mystore: committing txn 2147490480
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: duplicate_mark: 
<[email protected]> user.john            
1270756921 320038
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: mystore: starting txn 2147490481
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: mystore: committing txn 2147490481
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[12930]: duplicate_mark: 
<[email protected]> [email protected].       
1270756921 0
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine lmtpunix[13071]: duplicate_check: 
<[email protected]> user.john            0
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/lmtp[13008]: 00144E02007: 
to=<[email protected]>, orig_to=<postmaster>, 
relay=mymachine.mydomain.net[/var/lib/imap/socket/lmtp], delay=0.42, 
delays=0.06/0/0/0.35, dsn=2.1.5, status=sent (250 2.1.5 Ok)
Apr  8 13:02:01 mymachine postfix/qmgr[21590]: 00144E02007: removed

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