Vera leaned back. The CEO’s frantic emails had stopped. In their place was a single, quiet Delivered receipt for a forgotten password from his own account.
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.
First, she carved out the IP pools. She isolated the transactional emails—password resets, receipts—into a high-speed lane. These were the thoroughbreds. They needed pristine, dedicated IP addresses with strict throttling: max-smtp-out 20 per domain, throttle 5 per second. She gave them their own pool: ip 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.15 .
The CEO, a man who believed “the cloud” was a literal weather phenomenon, had demanded answers. Their marketing campaign—ten thousand personalized offers for luxury cat trees—was stuck in a digital traffic jam. Every major email provider had flagged Artemis as a potential spammer.
Vera leaned back. The CEO’s frantic emails had stopped. In their place was a single, quiet Delivered receipt for a forgotten password from his own account.
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.
First, she carved out the IP pools. She isolated the transactional emails—password resets, receipts—into a high-speed lane. These were the thoroughbreds. They needed pristine, dedicated IP addresses with strict throttling: max-smtp-out 20 per domain, throttle 5 per second. She gave them their own pool: ip 192.168.1.10-192.168.1.15 .
The CEO, a man who believed “the cloud” was a literal weather phenomenon, had demanded answers. Their marketing campaign—ten thousand personalized offers for luxury cat trees—was stuck in a digital traffic jam. Every major email provider had flagged Artemis as a potential spammer.
