I would like to be able to send errors to my email when they occur but I cannot seem to get it to work. I have the following configuration in the properties file.
log4j.rootLogger=INFO, CONSOLE, FILE, MAIL log4j.appender.CONSOLE=org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Threshold=${org.apache.geronimo.log.ConsoleLogLevel} log4j.appender.CONSOLE.Target=System.out log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.CONSOLE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n log4j.appender.FILE=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender log4j.appender.FILE.Threshold=TRACE log4j.appender.FILE.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.FILE.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %-5p [%c{1}] %m%n #email appender log4j.appender.MAIL=org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender #defines how othen emails are send log4j.appender.MAIL.BufferSize=1 log4j.appender.MAIL.SMTPHost="smtp.gmail.com" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] log4j.appender.MAIL.Subject=Log ... log4j.appender.MAIL.threshold=error log4j.appender.MAIL.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout log4j.appender.MAIL.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n But I get the following error 19:32:54,828 ERROR [GBeanInstanceState] Error while starting; GBean is now in the FAILED state: abstractName="org.apache.geronimo.configs/j2ee-system/2.0.2/car?ServiceModule=org.apache.geronimo.configs/j2ee-system/2.0.2/car,j2eeType=SystemLog,name=Logger" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/mail/Multipart at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.newInstance0(Unknown Source) at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByClassName(OptionConverter.java:329) at org.apache.log4j.helpers.OptionConverter.instantiateByKey(OptionConverter.java:120) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:629) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:612) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:509) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:415) at org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:441) at org.apache.geronimo.system.logging.log4j.URLConfigurator.doConfigure(URLConfigurator.java:117) at org.apache.geronimo.system.logging.log4j.URLConfigurator.configure(URLConfigurator.java:44) at org.apache.geronimo.system.logging.log4j.Log4jService.reconfigure(Log4jService.java:532) at org.apache.geronimo.system.logging.log4j.Log4jService.doStart(Log4jService.java:586) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.createInstance(GBeanInstance.java:996) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.attemptFullStart(GBeanInstanceState.java:268) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.start(GBeanInstanceState.java:102) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstanceState.startRecursive(GBeanInstanceState.java:124) at org.apache.geronimo.gbean.runtime.GBeanInstance.startRecursive(GBeanInstance.java:553) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.basic.BasicKernel.startRecursiveGBean(BasicKernel.java:379) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.startConfigurationGBeans(ConfigurationUtil.java:448) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.loadBootstrapConfiguration(ConfigurationUtil.java:200) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.config.ConfigurationUtil.loadBootstrapConfiguration(ConfigurationUtil.java:159) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.loadBootConfiguration(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:84) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.getMain(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:57) at org.apache.geronimo.kernel.util.MainConfigurationBootstrapper.main(MainConfigurationBootstrapper.java:38) at org.apache.geronimo.cli.AbstractCLI.executeMain(AbstractCLI.java:67) at org.apache.geronimo.cli.daemon.DaemonCLI.main(DaemonCLI.java:30) I have tried to add the javamail.jar to the j2ee-system/Meta-Inf/Manifest.MF file. But still to no luck. I have also put the javamail.jar into the repository and that still does nothing. Please any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you, Nathan