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> It isn't just Postfix, many MTAs do that.
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> "To: arnt" isn't legal syntax today, but it was legal a few decades ago
> and quite commonly used for years after the syntax changed (in, IIRC, 1982)
> and various MTAs still contains glue to support that. I think that's mostly
> a bug these days. It landed on the wrong side of the fence when servers
> learnt to distinguish between their own users (for whom they will relay)
> and others.
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>

yes, which is a pita if the clients set the "To:" to something like
"undisclosed-recipients" for mailings with recipients in "BCC", because it
then adds the hostname of the server (which may be different then the
sender-domain).

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