Appender used in Java logging frameworks, such as log4j and logback, that sends an email via SMTP on logging events.
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Does Log4j2 smtp appender works without specifying smtpPassword field?
In the log4j2 offcial documentation there is a code snippet for the smtp appender .My Question here is there is no smtpPassword field included. Is it going to work? if yes then where exactly we are specifying the password.
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logback: possible to send an attachment with SMTPAppender?
My spring boot application uses logback.
I was searching through logback docs and I couldn't find if there is support for a feature to send an email with an attachment .log file when an error occurs.
Currently my application only sends out an email…

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log4net smtpappender custom email recipients
I am able to use log4net to send logging information to an email address using the smtpappender and a Gmail account in a VB solution (Visual Studio 2010). The recipient is configured in the log4net config file, however I would like to be able to…

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Log4j parsing error adding triggeringPolicy on SMTPAppender
On my SpringMVC project I enabled email logging starting from INFO massage (default behaviour is starting from ERROR message).
This is my appender configuration in log4j.xml:
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Setting importance on emails sent by Logback SMTPAppender
I'm using an SMTPAppender in Logback to send messages from automated jobs when they complete successfully and when they encounter errors. I'd like the emails notifying us about errors to be sent with high importance. How can this be done with…

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log4net smtpappender subject based on log level
Is it possible to configure log4net to have two smtp appenders - one that sends emails only when log level is >= WARN and second that sends everything, but never two on the same time.

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Limit Logback Email to Enrivonment
Although the Java project I'm working with contains different jconfig XML files per environment, it has one logback XML file for the entire project.
Inside, there is an SMTPAppender like:

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HTMLLayout in logback e-mail has no content when using a custom SMTPAdapter
I set up a Spring-boot application, which sends every 24 hours maximum 10 logs to a specific e-mail when exceptions are thrown. I use logback it works but after implementing a custom SMTPAdapter (to limit the e-mail rate) the HTMLLayout in the…

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Log4j2 SMTP-Appender "Must issue a STARTTLS command first"
I am trying to send log entries with severity "error" via email in java.
In my log4j2.xml file I have the following SMTP appender:
name="Mail"
subject="Error…

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log4j SMTPAppender, how to email only specific errors
I've configured an SMTPAppender in my JBoss server.

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Log4net example multiple appenders for different-levels
I have multiple appenders in log4net.config file. I want to email whenever error occurs.
this is my Log4net.config

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How do I set a custom subject in SmtpAppender in log4j2
Our application is deployed as a servlet war to multiple tomcat servers under multiple customer contexts:
customer#application.war
We're using log4j2 as our logging and alert email mechanism. So far, everything is working great and our fatal…

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Log4j.xml smtpappender emailthrottle
I have a log4J.xml SMTPAppender configuration as follows:

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Log4Net - make smtp appender send email only after 100 errors
I would like to send an email only after 100 ERRORS were written as a html table(That's the purpose of the SmtpExtendedAppender, iterate over all the messages that were saved) but I am not sure how to access them.
This is my app.config:

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Is it possible to set an SMTP header in SMTPAppender?
I've got an SMTPAppender configured and I'd like to have email messages sent by that appender to have the header Auto-Submitted: auto-generated added to the messages. (This allows auto-responders, for example, to stop sending out-of-office messages…

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