On a related note, for local domains (as opposed to hosted domains), the 
email address doesn't get garbled, it just returns a username unknown, 
e.g. 550 User <nonexistant> unknown (which is correct, AFAIK).

Gordan

On Tue, 16 Oct 2007, Gordan Bobic wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In my testing, I may have stumbled upon a bug.
>
> Fire up a telnet session to a server containing a hosted domain (e.g.
> foo.com)
>
> telnet mailserver 25
> HELO sendingserver
> MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  513 Relaying denied.
> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  (after a long pause)
>  550 User <nonexistant@> unknown <--- Note it ends with @>
> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  (after a long pause>
>  550 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> unknown <--- random non ASCII characers
> instead of [garbage]
> RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>  (long pause again)
>  550 User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> QUIT
>  221 Bye.
>
>
> Assuming for a moment that the delay is to do with DNS (which it may be,
> my domain isn't yet fully set up), that still leaves the issue of garbage
> appearing in the response. That sounds like there might be a possible
> buffer over-run error causing a problem. Could it possibly be caused by
> large DNS MX record coming back (considerably bigger than 512 bytes,
> lots of MX-es so falls back on TCP)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Gordan
>
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