Recently i saw a post on one of the forums where a user complained that the SMTPAppender does not take into account the Threshold value that is specified in the configuration. By default, the appender logs only events which have a level eqaul to or higher than ERROR. Here's one post in this mailing list which proves the same:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg03741.html This appears to be because of the DefaultEvaluator inside the SMTPAppender which has the following logic: class DefaultEvaluator implements TriggeringEventEvaluator { /** Is this <code>event</code> the e-mail triggering event? <p>This method returns <code>true</code>, if the event level has ERROR level or higher. Otherwise it returns <code>false</code>. */ public boolean isTriggeringEvent(LoggingEvent event) { return event.getLevel().isGreaterOrEqual(Level.ERROR); } Users who want to log messages with levels lesser than ERROR, currently have to configure their *own implementation* of the TriggeringEventEvaluator. This doesnt seem right. I would prefer the DefaultEvaluator take into account the Threshold value that has been specified in the log4j configuration file instead of hardcoding the Level.ERROR. After all, that's what the Threshold attribute is meant to do. The fix (if i can call it so) appears simple - just have to pass on the Threshold value from the appender to the DefaultEvaluator. Let me know if anyone wants me to send a patch for this. regards, -Jaikiran Send free SMS to your Friends on Mobile from your Yahoo! Messenger. Download Now! http://messenger.yahoo.com/download.php
