Responding to my own thread:
I made the change below to my props file and everything is fine now.
#general stuff
log4j.logger.model.notification=INFO, emailAppender
log4j.additivity.model.notification=false
log4j.logger.beans=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.logger.model=DEBUG, generalAppender
log4j.
If you remove 'emailAppender' from your log4j.rootLogger config then
part of your problem should be fixed. I had a similar situation and used
the following code:
log4j.rootLogger=DEBUG, EXTERNAL
log4j.logger.internal=DEBUG,INTERNAL
log4j.additivity.internal=false
where I defined 2 separate appen