Hi, I am new to this e-mail list, so please help me out. This is my problem. I am using SMTPAppender to send e-mail messages to users when certain events are received by the log server from the external application. What I noticed in my testing was that events are being send to users even after the instance of SMTPAppender was stopped or removed. This is how I discovered the problem:
1. I created an SMTPAppender and added a filter to it 2. I started to receive events and relaying them to users 3. I removed SMTPAppender 4. I am still processing events and sending them to users, but now I get the message "LOG4J:ERROR trying to append to closed appender" or something like this. 5. Then, I created another appender with the same name. 6. Now, I am getting two identical messages send to my inbox for the same received event. Results of experiment clearly demonstrated to me that an instance of SMTPAppender was somehow not properly released by log4j and still used for processing messages after being removed. So, I modified the code of several class in the log4j source code, SMTPAppender.java and AppenderAttachableImpl.java, and now everything seems to work fine. Please let me know if anybody reported this bug before or if not, how can I submit request for a bug fix and where to. Thanks Max Stolyarov NOVARRA 3232 Kennicott Ave Arlington Heights, Illinois 60004 Phone: (847) 368-7800 x 252 Facsimile: (847) 590-8144 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>