# Issues troubleshooting email

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [April 25, 2019, 10:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-troubleshooting-email/116016 "2019-04-25T22:03:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 25, 2019, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/issues-troubleshooting-email/116016/6 "2019-04-25T22:31:31Z")

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The address of the SMTP server, which is a DNS name, not the SMTP address sparkpost is using, which would be in the format [user@realm.com](mailto:user@realm.com)

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