[logback-user] SMTP Appender silently fails

[Alex Glass]

Thanks for the pointer Lutz, I definitely would have missed that even if I
had gone into the Javadocs because that tip is buried in the section under
the default constructor.  After reading other posts, it seems that this is
a bug that affects logback 1.0.0.  When I downgraded to version 0.9.30,
things worked as expected and I was able to send SSL mail through Gmail.

Thanks,
Alex

2012/3/3 Lutz Hühnken <lh.logback.list at googlemail.com>

> 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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