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CONTAP-699188: After upgrading ONTAP from 9.15 to 9.16 Multi-Admin Verification (MAV) stopped sending approval emails to multiple email addresses

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Multi-Admin Verification (MAV) email notifications stopped being sent to approvers after upgrading from ONTAP 9.15 to 9.16. The issue occurs when multiple approvers and multiple email addresses are configured per group and continues to persist on ONTAP 9.16.
MGWD.log:
Fri Feb 1 2026 16:14:44 +01:00 [kern_mgwd:info:4049] 0x111111d00: 1003e1000000115f: ERR: multi_admin: Connectivity check to SMTP Mail Host failed. Reason: Timeout was reached

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