# Can’t send emails due to failed internal dns resolution

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-send-emails-due-to-failed-internal-dns-resolution/43592>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [May 3, 2016, 8:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-send-emails-due-to-failed-internal-dns-resolution/43592 "2016-05-03T08:45:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2019, 4:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-t-send-emails-due-to-failed-internal-dns-resolution/43592/17 "2019-01-17T04:46:23Z")

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I feel like `discourse_doctor` should be able to “figure this out”. Basically run a container with our base image and run a DNS query or 2.

We do have rake tasks now for testing email, but I think it should be automatic longer term. @pfaffman are we doing anything here?

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