Try
mail '-#d' crn.mteege.de!mtgand see how the addresses are being rewritten. Also watch the tail of /sys/log/mail and /sys/log/smtp. I suspect that a plain user name like `mtg' is getting rewritten, possibly by upas/aliasmail, into an address that causes upas to send the message to mteege.de via smtp and this is being caught after 32 iterations.
