Hi, First time to use a SMTPAppender. I have downloaded javamail-1.3 and specified smtp.jar and mailapi.jar in my classpath.
My configuration is as following: log4j.appender.emailAppender=org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender log4j.appender.emailAppender.Threshold=ERROR log4j.appender.emailAppender.SMTPHost=xxx.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] log4j.appender.emailAppender.Subject=Testing SMTP appdender log4j.appender.emailAppender.layout=org.apache.log4j.HTMLLayout og4j.appender.email.layout.Title=applicationFOO Logging I ran my application and got: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/activation/DataSource at org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender.activateOptions(Unknown Source) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:247) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:123 ) at org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:87) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.jav a:645) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.jav a:603) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCatsAndRenderers(PropertyConfigur ator.java:524) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java: 408) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:34 0) at Ex1.main(Ex1.java:51) Questions: 1) What jar file(s) do I need to specify in the classpath? 2) what should I specify emailAppender.layout for a simple e-mail message? 3) what is layout.Title? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>