[logback-user] SMTP Appender silently fails

[Lutz Hühnken]

Hi Alex,

although I am having issues with the SMTPAppender myself (as you
noticed - http://jira.qos.ch/browse/LBCLASSIC-323), you may be facing
something else here.

In your example, it seems the log event that you wish to trigger the
e-mail with ("SmtpTest - Hello World") has the level "INFO". Please
note (quote from the docs):

"By default, the email transmission is triggered by a logging event of
level ERROR. "

Log it as an error and see what happens.

If you wish to trigger mail for INFO events, you need to provide a
different "EventEvaluator". Go to
http://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html and search for the section
with the headline "Triggering event" for details.

Hth,
Lutz


On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Alex Glass <alexander.glass at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to use SMTPAppender to send a log message through gmail.  I have added javax.mail:mailapi:1.4.3 as a depdendency.  I also tried adding javax.activation:activation:1.1.1 with no success.  If I change the host to xyz, it has no affect.  This is my configuration file:
>
> <configuration debug="true">
>     <appender name="STDOUT" class="ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender">
>         <encoder>
>             <pattern>
>                 %-4relative [out] %-5level %logger - %msg%n
>             </pattern>
>         </encoder>
>     </appender>
>
>     <appender name="EMAIL" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender">
>         <smtpHost>smtp.gmail.com</smtpHost>
>         <smtpPort>465</smtpPort>
>         <SSL>true</SSL>
>         <username>somebody at gmail.com</username>
>         <password>somepass</password>
>         <to>someone at gmail.com</to>
>         <from>somebody at gmail.com</from>
>         <subject>Testing %logger{20} - %m</subject>
>
>         <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
>             <pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{1} - %msg%n</pattern>
>         </layout>
>     </appender>
>
>     <root level="info">
>         <appender-ref ref="STDOUT" />
>         <appender-ref ref="EMAIL" />
>     </root>
> </configuration>
>
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Console output
>
> 12:45:56,627 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - About to instantiate appender of type [ch.qos.logback.core.ConsoleAppender]
> 12:45:56,630 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - Naming appender as [STDOUT]
> 12:45:56,644 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.NestedComplexPropertyIA - Assuming default type [ch.qos.logback.classic.encoder.PatternLayoutEncoder] for [encoder] property
> 12:45:56,668 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - About to instantiate appender of type [ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender]
> 12:45:56,678 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderAction - Naming appender as [EMAIL]
> 12:45:56,714 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.RootLoggerAction - Setting level of ROOT logger to INFO
> 12:45:56,714 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderRefAction - Attaching appender named [STDOUT] to Logger[ROOT]
> 12:45:56,715 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.core.joran.action.AppenderRefAction - Attaching appender named [EMAIL] to Logger[ROOT]
> 12:45:56,715 |-INFO in ch.qos.logback.classic.joran.action.ConfigurationAction - End of configuration.
>
> 180  [out] INFO  SmtpTest - Hello World
>
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