How to configure email notifications on Red Hat Satellite v 6.1 or Content Publish/Promote fail with error "getaddrinfo: Name or service not known" for "ErrataMail" action

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Issue

  • How to configure email notifications on Red Hat Satellite v 6.1?
  • Error "getaddrinfo: Name or service not known" during a Content View publish or promotion.
  • hammer> repository synchronize or while trying to synchronize repository using Satellite web-ui fails with error : Actions::Katello::Repository::ErrataMail,
Action:
Actions::Katello::Repository::ErrataMail
Input:
{"repo"=>98, "last_updated"=>"2015-08-14 05:35:34 UTC", "locale"=>"en"}
Output:
{}
Exception:
SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Backtrace:

Environment

  • Red Hat Satellite v 6.1

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