# Email Relay Issue JSON.parse

**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/email-relay-issue-json-parse/37546
**Category:** Support apps
**Tags:** \_others, gotosocial, english
**Created:** [June 27, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/email-relay-issue-json-parse/37546 "2025-06-27T19:31:02Z")
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### Author: ![uhoo](https://forum.yunohost.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/f17d59/32.png) [@uhoo](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/uhoo)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2025, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/email-relay-issue-json-parse/37546/1 "2025-06-27T19:31:02Z")

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**What type of hardware are you using** : VPS bought online  
**What YunoHost version are you running** : 12.0.17  
**What app is this about** : GoToSocial

### Describe your issue

I set up a VPS a few months ago and installed GoToSocial. I set up an email relay and everything appeared to be functioning as expected.

I recently tried to onboard a friend and realized that the email function wasn’t working.

I sent myself a test email and got

PARSING\_ERROR: SyntaxError: Unexpected token ‘\<’, “  
\<h”… is not valid JSON

On an unrelated note, I also fired up a IceShrimp server wondering if some friends and relatives might like such a thing. I set up the email relay there and got something along the same lines:

JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data  
undefined

As always, thanks for any help here.

### Share relevant logs or error messages

Available if needed?

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### Author: ![system](https://forum.yunohost.org/uploads/default/original/2X/f/f59fe8e3ee6b100b4f574d30d6e30479c68b89f0.png) [@system](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/email-relay-issue-json-parse/37546/3 "2025-07-12T20:41:26Z")

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