# Email notification block

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-notification-block/21847>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [January 13, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-notification-block/21847 "2019-01-13T13:20:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![jshaffer09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jshaffer09](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jshaffer09)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 1:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-notification-block/21847/1 "2019-01-13T13:20:10Z")

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What cause a email notification block and how do you get it to clear.

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-notification-block/21847/2 "2019-01-13T15:38:13Z")

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Can you explain the issue you’re having a little better?

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**Author:** ![jshaffer09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df788c/32.png) [@jshaffer09](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jshaffer09)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2019, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/email-notification-block/21847/3 "2019-01-13T16:26:14Z")

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after looking at the logs, I notice it was blocking it because it couldn’t find the host name. I didn’t have it in the configuration.