SmtpAppender

The SmtpAppender sends log events via email using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). This appender is useful for sending email notifications when certain events occur, such as errors or critical failures in your application.

The following example shows how to configure the SmtpAppender to deliver log events via SMTP email. The To, From, Subject and SmtpHost are required parameters. This example shows how to deliver only significant events.

A LevelEvaluator is specified with a threshold of WARN. This means that an email will be sent for each WARN or higher level message that is logged. Each email will also contain up to 512 (BufferSize) previous messages of any level to provide context.

Messages not sent will be discarded.

<appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender">
  <to value="to@example.com" />
  <from value="from@example.com" />
  <subject value="test logging message" />
  <smtpHost value="smtp.example.com" />
  <bufferSize value="512" />
  <lossy value="true" />
  <evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator">
    <threshold value="WARN"/>
  </evaluator>
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
    <conversionPattern value="%newline%date [%thread] %-5level %logger - %message%newline%newline%newline" />
  </layout>
</appender>

This example shows how to configure the SmtpAppender to deliver all messages in emails with 512 bufferSize messages per email.

<appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender">
  <to value="to@example.com" />
  <from value="from@example.com" />
  <subject value="test logging message" />
  <smtpHost value="smtp.example.com" />
  <bufferSize value="512" />
  <lossy value="false" />
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
    <conversionPattern value="%newline%date [%thread] %-5level %logger - %message%newline%newline%newline" />
  </layout>
</appender>

This example shows a more verbose formatting layout for the mail messages.

<appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender,log4net">
  <to value="to@example.com" />
  <from value="from@example.com" />
  <subject value="test logging message" />
  <smtpHost value="smtp.example.com" />
  <bufferSize value="512" />
  <lossy value="false" />
  <evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator,log4net">
    <threshold value="WARN" />
  </evaluator>
  <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout,log4net">
    <conversionPattern value="%property{log4net:HostName} :: %level :: %message %newlineLogger: %logger%newlineThread: %thread%newlineDate: %date%newline%newline" />
  </layout>
</appender>