also sprach Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> [2007.10.10.1059 +0100]:
> In particular, I have seen MTAs which would (taking your situation as
> a concrete example, and when relaying mail eg as a smarthost), after
> receiving a mail with
> RCPT TO:<whatever@lapse.madduck.net>
> would look lapse.madduck.net in the DNS, see it's an alias, and then
> decide that the right thing to do was to send to your MX
> RCPT TO:<whatever@rw.madduck.net>
>
> (Obviously this behaviour is completely barking.)
Yes, I have seen those two, namely MS Exchange.
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