Vera saved a backup, added a new sticky note to the monitor: PMTA config: be gentle, be verified, be boring. And for the first time in a week, she went home before sunrise.
<domain yourdomain.com> dkim-sign yes dkim-signature dkim._domainkey.yourdomain.com </domain> pmta configuration
Artemis wasn’t just alive. It was respectable. Vera saved a backup, added a new sticky
Not with a dramatic spark or a scream, but with a slow, agonizing wheeze. Every outgoing email, from a forgotten password reset to a multi-million dollar invoice, hung in its queue like a condemned prisoner. The logs were a scarlet tide of errors: 550 5.7.1 , 421 4.7.0 , and the most feared of all, Deferred: Connection timed out . It was respectable
<domain *> max-message-size 25M queue-type FIFO </domain>
Vera had inherited Artemis from a ghost. The previous admin, a wizard of arcane scripts named "Grendel," had left behind a single sticky note: PMTA config: /etc/pmta/config . No password. No explanation. Just a file path.
She looked back at the config file. It was no longer a spell book. It was a constitution. Each directive a law: max-msg-rate was mercy. dkim-sign was identity. bounce-domain was accountability.