Appender used in Java logging frameworks, such as log4j and logback, that sends an email via SMTP on logging events.
Questions tagged [smtpappender]
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Logback SMTPAppender Limiting Rate
How can I limit the rate of emails a Logback SMTPAppender, so that it would email me at most once every n minutes?
I have setup my logging according to the Logback appender, but I don't quite see how it be configured or subclassed to implement…

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Logback SMTPAppender send only one email at a particular time with all the exceptions
Is there a way to configure the SMTPAppender in LogBack to meet the following criteria?
Group all the exceptions into one message
Only send the daily log report if exceptions occurred
Send the report only once, grouped in one email, at a…

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log4net smtp appender not sending emails
I'm trying to implement log4net to send email.
The following is my code but it's not sending emails.

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Why is Logback SMTPAppender only sending 1 email?
Here's a snippet containing my Logback SMTPAppender:
WARN
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user1768830
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Log4Net SmtpAppender for WebEmail - Not Sending
I'm trying to get Log4Net working with web email, either Yahoo or Gmail. If you have this working, I would appreciate some help, and thanks in advance.
I've got a default root logger, with a RollingFileAppender and an SmtpAppender.
The file…

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Logback SMTPAppender not sending email
I am attempting to use Logback for logging in my java application. I believe I have it correctly configured, but when an error is logged
INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender[EMAIL] - About to send
out SMTP message "Testing Main" to…

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log4j2 SMTP Appender: How to include previous messages with another level?
I'm using log4j2-beta9 and I have the following config (part of it):

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How do i use different logging levels for different classes with log4j2?
In the log4j2 documentation log4j2 java configuration the default configuration is this:

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Log4j2: SMTPAppender does not send mails with error or fatal level
I recognized some problems with the SMTPAppender in log4j2. Whenever log events with the level error or fatal are created without having an event with the level info before no mail is sent and the fatal event disappears.
Here is my log4j2…

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log4j SMTPAppender - Email multiple error messages
I am using log4j's SMTPAppender to email me upon each exception, but I'd really prefer it to aggregate emails into one email with a batch of errors rather than one email for each error.
I have seen the bufferSize variable but that appears to be for…

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How to send email notifications with slf4j / log4j2?
I've looked into other questions that are similar and have done some googling to find my answer but my question is still unanswered. I'm still unfamiliar with how some of this works, so bear with me.
Our maven pom.xml is using the slf4j dependency:…

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Must issue a STARTTLS command
I am trying to send error email through log4j. by using following appender:

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How do I update the "to" addresses on an SMTPAppender in Logback?
I am creating an admin page which has a couple of logback properties that I want to set on the fly, one of them being the admin emails that I send system alerts to. The api for the SMTPAppender has the methods to add to the list of "to" addresses,…

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Log4j: Unable to send mail using Log4j SMTP Appenders
I need to send a email when any Exception occurs in log file .This is my log4j.properties file
log4j.rootLogger=Info, EMAIL
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Log4j SmtpAppender - exception in subject
I use log4j for sending emails with exception.
My log4j configuration:
log4j.rootLogger=info, stdout, errmail
log4j.appender.errmail=cz.toby.utils.log.ErrSmtpAppender
log4j.appender.errmail.to=my_email@email.cz
log4j.appender.errmail.subject=Error…

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