"...for every logging event (error, fatal priority). Is this..."
Ahh, there's your issue. The mail appender uses a Threshold value to
trigger the send of the email, so... If you have a buffer size of 100, then
log 150 debug messages, only the last 100 debug messages are buffered. If
you then log an error message, the last 99 debug and that error message
would be in the sent email. At this point the buffer is empty. If you log
3 more debug messages, then another error, this again triggers an email,
since there are only 4 messages in the buffer, the sent email will only
contain those 4 messages. SO: If you log 5 error's in a row, you will get
5 emails each with only one message in them.
Got it? BTW the threshold can be set as a configuration option. The intent
with the mail appender is that error (the default threshold) level messages
should be rare in a system, and only really important events shoudl cause
email to be sent, otherwise it's just a good spam generator!
Regards
John Volkar
-----Original Message-----
From: Renaud Waldura [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2001 4:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: STMPAppende.BufferSize to control logging events per e-mail?
Dear Log4j Users,
I was hoping the BufferSize property of the SMTPAppender would control the
number of logging events sent in one e-mail message.
As quoted from the Javadocs:
"The number of logging events delivered in this e-mail depend on the value
of BufferSize option".
But it doesn't seem to work: I get one e-mail message for every logging
event (error, fatal priority). Is this a mis-configuration on my part? A
bug? How do I control how many logging events are sent per e-mail message?
--Renaud
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