Agree w/ comment #5, this is a security vulnerability, and should be backported to 10.04LTS. I found this bug on our systems while doing a security audit of "those random emails that come in from root." Thankfully, it's a bug, not a security breach, but this could probably be used to mask malicious activity if one manages to bork DNS on a compromised host.
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