Actually, from local means 2 things:

1- from _any_ IP address that is assigned to the local machine
2- from clients that have authenticated themselves to the local machine

Gilles

On Fri, May 30, 2014 at 05:45:43AM -0700, Barbier, Jason wrote:
> From local means 2 things 1. From 127.0.0.0/8 or from authenticated,
> On May 30, 2014 5:09 AM, "Clint Pachl" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Clint Pachl wrote, On 05/30/14 05:02:
> >
> >> The directive for "from local" in the smtpd.conf(5) man page states:
> >>
> >>   "The rule matches only locally originating connections."
> >>
> >> But what exactly does "locally originating" mean?
> >>
> >> My network consists of two subnets: 10.0.9.0/24 and 10.0.10.0/24. The
> >> OpenSMTPD server is at 10.0.9.20. The email client is at 10.0.10.24. The
> >> mail server will relay mail to the Internet for the client with the
> >> following single rule:
> >>
> >>   accept from local for any relay
> >>
> >> Should the mail server be relaying mail for this client? Is the client,
> >> which is on a different subnet than the mail server, considered "local"?
> >>
> >
> > I also forgot to add that this client is also authenticating with the mail
> > server using this rule:
> >
> >   listen on mail port submission tls-require pki tm auth <passwd>
> >
> > Perhaps a successfully authenticated session automatically makes the
> > client "local"?
> >
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