diff --git a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
index 641d56b2bb..7849d670cc 100644
--- a/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/mirrormanager/frontend2/tasks/main.yml
@@ -50,6 +50,14 @@
   - mm2_frontend
   - config
 
+- name: set sebooleans so mirrormanager can send exception mails
+  action: seboolean name=httpd_can_sendmail
+                    state=true
+                    persistent=true
+  tags:
+  - mm2_frontend
+  - config
+
 - name: startup apache
   service: name=httpd enabled=yes state=started
   tags: