I'm curious why the [EMAIL PROTECTED] characters gets added by the forwarding courier server,
Because this is a double bounce, and double bounces should be delivered locally, otherwise an external mail loop is possible. As such, the return address is deliberately set so that it's likely to be rejected by the remote mail server in the unfortunate event that the local server is misconfigured to send double-bounces remotely.
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