Lots of mail with no sender address

Hi Guys, I recently became the admin for our companies cPanel server, mostly it plods along with no issues and I've not had to do to much but it looks like I need to investigate an issue that keeps coming back and needs a proper solution. If I run the following cmd on my server I get back the top 5 results of emails sorted by the recipient. # exim -bpr | egrep '^[[:space:]]{,3}[[:digit:]]' | awk '{print $4;}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -5 1651 <> 4 1 1 1 I see 1651 message that seem to have no senders. This is one of the headers:

mailnull 47 12
<>
1480597551 0
-ident mailnull
-received_protocol local
-body_linecount 208
-max_received_linelength 160
-allow_unqualified_recipient
-allow_unqualified_sender
-frozen 1480597551
-localerror
XX
1
news@

160P Received: from mailnull by shost02with local (Exim 4.86                                                                                                                _1)
        id 1cCR3f-000828-4T
        for news@; Thu, 01 Dec 2016 13:05:51 +0000
055  X-Failed-Recipients: juliet00000@
029  Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
070F From: Mail Delivery System 
026T To: news@
099  Content-Type: multipart/report; report-type=delivery-status; boundary=14805                                                                                                                97551-eximdsn-200917962
018  MIME-Version: 1.0
059  Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
059I Message-Id: 


At this point I am unsure how to proceed, sure I can remove them all as I have in the past but I'd to try and find out whats causing this, how do I go about this?

Thanks
Paul

Lots of mail with no sender address

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