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#1 General matters » Bad SMTP Documentation » 2018-08-19 20:18:05

user89
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I've spent a lot of time troubleshooting why the SMTP function was failing to work properly for me today. Eventually I was able to determine it was due to bad documentation.

Every page I can find says that the smtpsrvs file should be configured with colons separating the fields.

Example: https://33hops.com/xsibackup-smtp-serve … -file.html

Even the example in the default smtpsrvs file uses colons to separate the fields. However, I eventually noticed one page of documentation where semi-colons were used instead. When I used that format for the line everything worked fine.

Here's the page with the correct format (which is all the way at the bottom of the page): https://33hops.com/xsibackup-smtp-client.html

Please correct all SMTP documentation to use the correct format with semi-colons so that other people don't lose an hour of their life troubleshooting it the way that I did.

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