in addition to what I just wrote, I realized only in this instant that an email from one of two IPs in mynetworks:
mynetworks = 127.0.0.0/8, ip.1, ip.2 (THESE ARE FIXED IPS OF TWO is rejected with this message in the log: master.cf.orig:smtp inet n - n - - smtpd Jul 28 10:35:24 newvps postfix/smtpd[3800]: NOQUEUE: reject: RCPT from...[ip.2]: 554 5.7.1 <[ip.2]>: Client host rejected: Access denied; from=<mfioretti@some.addreess> to=<ma...@example.com> proto=ESMTP helo=<polaris.local>