чт, 18 мар. 2021 г. в 02:27, Thomas Bohl <opensmtpd-misc-64...@aloof.de>:

>
> > what is address=local? is this smtpd.sock?
>
> As far as I understand it, yes.
> (Which makes the first part of my original answer somewhat wrong. I was
> thinking about something else while answering.)
>
>
> > I cannot understand in what moment connection automatically authenticates.
>
> When you use mail, sendmail is used, which is smtpctl (see
> /etc/mailer.conf). smtpctl uses /var/run/smtpd.sock to communicate with
> smtpd. Connections via /var/run/smtpd.sock are (as you can see in your
> logs) from local. This local connections are automatically authenticated.
> As far as I understand, connections over IP (even from 127.0.0.1) are
> never automatically authenticated, in order to prevent accidental open
> relays.
>

Thank's a lot! Now everything is clear!

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