Bug 1292747

Summary:	Satellite's email configuration should use sendmail by default and not 'smtp.example.com'
Product:	Red Hat Satellite	Reporter:	Rich Jerrido <rjerrido>
Component:	Email	Assignee:	Stephen Benjamin <stbenjam>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Bruno Rocha <rochacbruno>
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Version:	6.1.5	CC:	egolov, jcallaha, pcfe, rochacbruno, stbenjam
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Description Rich Jerrido 2015-12-18 09:33:43 UTC

Description of problem:


As a user I would like to have the default email configuration (specified in /etc/foreman/email.yml) to be changes to 'localhost' from 'smtp.example.com'

The reasoning for this is the following:

* Almost every server system has a local MTA (even if all that MTA does is relay mail to another). 
* If I mail-enable a user accidentally without specifying an MTA, many of my tasks that send email (repository sync or content view promotion) end in a 'warning' state due to not being able to connect to 'smtp.example.com' 
* Having the email sent to my local MTA allows the MTA the ability to retry delivery, queue the message and various other mail delivery tasks that MTA are good at. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
katello-2.2.0.16-1.el7sat.noarch
foreman-1.7.2.49-1.el7sat.noarch




Additional info:

Comment 1 Stephen Benjamin 2016-07-15 14:32:08 UTC

Created redmine issue http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15704 from this bug

Comment 2 Stephen Benjamin 2016-07-15 14:42:14 UTC

I think sendmail has a better chance of 'just working' on a un*x system

Comment 3 Evgeni Golov 2016-07-15 15:07:24 UTC

+1 on sendmail

Comment 4 Bryan Kearney 2016-07-15 16:10:27 UTC

Upstream bug assigned to stbenjam

Comment 5 Bryan Kearney 2016-07-15 16:10:30 UTC

Upstream bug assigned to stbenjam

Comment 7 Bryan Kearney 2016-07-18 12:12:03 UTC

Moving to POST since upstream bug http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/15704 has been closed

Comment 10 Bruno Rocha 2016-11-17 18:29:39 UTC

Verified in:

satellite-6.3.0-6.1.beta.el7sat.noarch - RHEL7
katello-3.2.0-3.rc3.el7.noarch
foreman-1.13.1-1.el7.noarch

Conclusion:

it defaults to sendmail

cat /etc/foreman/email.yaml 
# Outgoing email settings

production:
  delivery_method: :sendmail

Comment 11 Bryan Kearney 2018-02-21 17:01:59 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0336