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log4j SMTPAppender not sending mail

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aflat362 - 01 Nov 2006 19:50 GMT
I have a log4j SMTPAppender set up in my XML config file.

Everything seems valid yet I don't receive any email messages.

I had our exchange server admin perform a trace on the SMTP server and
it doesn't even seem like I am hitting the SMTP server at all.

I'm using eclipse 3.2 and log4j 1.2.14

I have mail.jar, mailapi.jar and activation.jar in my project build
path.

Here is my log4j XML config file (sensitive information censored out):

Also - my program is in fact logging error statements but I don't get
the email when an error occurs.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">

 <appender name="fileappender" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender">
   <param name="File" value="IppsLdapSynch.log.txt"/>
   <param name="Append" value="true"/>
   <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
     <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t] %p - %m%n"/>
   </layout>
 </appender>

 <appender name="consoleappender"
class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
   <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
     <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d %p - %m%n"/>
   </layout>
 </appender>

   <appender name="EMAIL"  class="org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender">
       <param name="BufferSize" value="512" />
       <param name="SMTPHost" value="xxxxxxxxxxxxx" />
       <param name="From" value="xxxxxxxxxxxxx" />
       <param name="To" value="xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" />
       <param name="Subject" value="An Error has occurred in
IppsLdapSynch" />
       <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
           <param name="ConversionPattern"
             value="[%d{ISO8601}]%n%n%-5p%n%n%c%n%n%m%n%n" />
       </layout>
       <filter class="org.apache.log4j.varia.LevelRangeFilter">
           <param name="LevelMin" value="ERROR"/>
           <param name="LevelMax" value="FATAL"/>
       </filter>
   </appender>

 <root>
   <priority value ="info"/>
   <appender-ref ref="EMAIL"/>
   <appender-ref ref="fileappender"/>
   <appender-ref ref="consoleappender"/>
 </root>

</log4j:configuration>
aflat362 - 02 Nov 2006 17:50 GMT
Just some more info on this.

I created an executable jar of my program and ran it outside of
eclipse.  There is no problem sending email outside of eclipse - it
only doesn't send mail when I run inside of eclipse.

Also to note, I've used SMTPAppender in other programs I wrote using
IBM WebSphere 5.1.2 and there's no problem sending email from within
there.


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