Hi Graeme

Thanks for your response.

If I send a test email the from address is 
root@hostname.domain<mailto:root@hostname.domain> and these appear in my inbox 
immediately.

The from address for the notification emails is 
dev-null@localhost.domain<mailto:dev-null@localhost.domain> and these just 
queue up.

I’ve tried setting the default_mail_from to either of the 2 from addresses, and 
re-started Spacewalk services, but it makes no difference.

However, I’ll check with owners of mail relay, as has been suggested separately.

Best regards
Phil

From: spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com <spacewalk-list-boun...@redhat.com> On 
Behalf Of Graeme Fowler
Sent: 02 May 2019 15:39
To: spacewalk-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Mail Notifications

The error message you detail looks to me very much like an Exim response, not 
Postfix; your system looks to be accepting the locally-generated mail but the 
mail relay is struggling with it.

If you’re not sending from a fully-qualified, verifiable sender address within 
your own institution’s email namespace(s) then you might well find the relay 
won’t accept the messages – although the 451 error implies that there’s 
something the relay can’t process rather than something it rejects on.

At Loughborough we set default_mail_from to be 
root@hostname.domain<mailto:root@hostname.domain> – so something like:

default_mail_from = 
r...@dev-spacewalk-instance.birmingham.ac.uk<mailto:r...@dev-spacewalk-instance.birmingham.ac.uk>

(noting that the hostname/domain must resolve in your DNS!)

Graeme

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on behalf of "p.cook...@bham.ac.uk<mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>" 
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Date: Thursday, 2 May 2019 at 15:19
To: "spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com>" 
<spacewalk-list@redhat.com<mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com>>
Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Mail Notifications

Good afternoon

I have Spacewalk 2.8 installed on a RHEL 7.6 system with Postfix configured to 
use our own mail relay. If I send an email test, from the command line, to my 
personal email box I receive the email straightaway. However, I’m not receiving 
email Notifications, from Spacewalk, even though they are checked in the Users’ 
Preferences screen.

I can see the following type of errors in /var/log/maillog (hostname etc made 
anonymous):

May  2 14:34:50 <hostname> postfix/smtp[45681]: 422EAE2C60: 
to=<user>@<address>, relay=<relay name>[<relay IP>]:25, delay=409786, 
delays=409781/0.03/5/0.02, dsn=4.0.0, status=deferred (host relay=<relay 
name>[<relay IP>] said: 451 Temporary local problem - please try later (in 
reply to RCPT TO command))

Is there some Spacewalk configuration that needs to be done to enable it to 
utilise Postfix perhaps? As an example I’ve seen some references to 
web.default_mail_from, in /etc/rhn/rhn.conf, but I’m not sure what it actually 
needs to be set to.

Regards

Philip Cookson
Linux Administrator
IT Services
ERI Building
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT

Tel: 0121 414 4731
Email: p.cook...@bham.ac.uk<mailto:p.cook...@bham.ac.uk>

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