Unrecognized token 'mail', 'jdbc'

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Though the Blynk (local) server starts and seems to be running AOK, the log contains these messages at startup. How to interpret/remediate?

ERROR - Error parsing file ‘/home/pi/Blynk/mail.properties’. Error : Unrecognized token ‘mail’: was expecting (‘true’, ‘false’ or ‘null’)
at [Source: /home/pi/Blynk/mail.properties; line: 1, column: 6]
ERROR - Error parsing file ‘/home/pi/Blynk/server.properties’. Error : Unexpected character (‘#’ (code 35)): expected a valid value (number, String, array, object, ‘true’, ‘false’ or ‘null’)
at [Source: /home/pi/Blynk/server.properties; line: 1, column: 2]
ERROR - Error parsing file ‘/home/pi/Blynk/db.properties’. Error : Unrecognized token ‘jdbc’: was expecting (‘true’, ‘false’ or ‘null’)
at [Source: /home/pi/Blynk/db.properties; line: 1, column: 6]
ERROR - Error parsing file ‘/home/pi/Blynk/server-0.18.3.jar’. Error : Unrecognized token ‘PK’: was expecting (‘true’, ‘false’ or ‘null’)

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How does your mail.properties file look? mine is like this:

mail.smtp.auth=true
mail.smtp.starttls.enable=true
mail.smtp.host=smtp.gmail.com
mail.smtp.port=587
mail.smtp.username=mymail@gmail.com

Could be weird line endings and such. Try UltraEdit or SublimeText to see if it’s a proper file.

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pretty much precisely the same as yours (with some obvious differences: username!)
and I also include the password property.

BTW, enabling password generated an Enable Insecure Apps action on my Google Mail account. Might be a good point for the docs.

Editors: Use joe - and sometimes nano - as they’re the very spirit of clean, non-intrusive editors. Double-checked mail.properties in both; checked for extra whitespace, etc. Nothing.

Finally, note that Java itself(?) is reporting these parsing errors, even on the server jar: /home/pi/Blynk/server-0.18.3.jar

4

What hardware and OS are you running the server on? The insecure apps notification should be in the docs btw, I found that out a couple months ago.

5

What log? Where this messages come from?

They are.

6

RaspberryPi 3 - Raspian Jessie

Log is standard: blynk/blynk.log. Java parsing errors arise almost immediately at server boot. Then seems to proceed, and run, normally. eMail functions work just fine, eg.

7

This errors because you are specified dataFolder as folder with properties files.