log4j SMTPAppender -- combining messages into one e-mail?

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  • Mikhail Teterin

    log4j SMTPAppender -- combining messages into one e-mail?

    Hello!

    I'm trying to use log4j's SMTPAppender to get warnings and errors reported
    by our application via e-mail (in addition to having ALL messages saved
    into a file via RollingFileAppe nder).

    It all works, except for one thing -- every warning/error arrives in its own
    e-mail message...

    The BufferSize parameters appears intended to regulate this, but no matter
    what I set it to (tried different values from 1 to 102400), exactly one
    log-message per e-mail are still generated...

    Any ideas? Thanks!

    -mi

    Here is my current log4.properties file:

    log4j.rootLogge r=DEBUG, A1, mail
    log4j.appender. A1=org.apache.l og4j.RollingFil eAppender
    log4j.appender. A1.File=log.txt
    log4j.appender. R.MaxFileSize=1 00KB
    log4j.appender. R.MaxBackupInde x=1

    log4j.appender. A1.layout=org.a pache.log4j.Pat ternLayout

    # Pattern to output the caller's file name and line number.
    log4j.appender. A1.layout.Conve rsionPattern=%d %5p [%t] (%F:%L) - %m%n

    log4j.appender. mail=org.apache .log4j.net.SMTP Appender
    log4j.appender. mail.To=me@exam ple.com
    log4j.appender. mail.From=me@ex ample.com
    log4j.appender. mail.SMTPHost=s mtp.example.com
    log4j.appender. mail.Threshold= WARN
    log4j.appender. mail.BufferSize =1024000
    log4j.appender. mail.Subject=Te sting log4j email
    log4j.appender. mail.layout=org .apache.log4j.H TMLLayout

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