I think this is related to a question I asked a while back. If the recipient
address has a null local part, the message is silently rejected.
On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 11:15:11AM -0700,
Eric Huss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a question about relay routes and qmail. (This is in reference to
> RFC 821, Section 3.6).
>
> If you connect to a qmail smtpd, and specify:
> RCPT TO: <@somedomain.com>
>
> It will always say 250 ok. Whats more, the logs will say "msg 12345 to
> local @mylocaldomain.com" where mylocaldomain.com is your box's domain.
> However, I do not see the message actually delivered anywhere on the
> machine. Shouldn't qmail either outright reject the message (because
> somedomain.com is not in rcpthosts), or accept the message, and then try
> to bounce it to the original receiver?
>
> -Eric
