Your had posted this earlier: <appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender"> <to value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" /> <from value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" /> <subject value="ERROR - test Account Process Logging Message" /> <smtpHost value="192.168.1.3" /> <bufferSize value="512" /> <lossy value="false" /> <filter type="log4net.Filter.LevelRangeFilter"> <param name="LevelMin" value="INFO"/> <param name="LevelMax" value="ERROR"/> </filter> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <conversionPattern value="[%date] %message" /> </layout> </appender>
You are aware that no emails will be sent until 512 messages have been queued up? Are you able to send mail using these more general settings? <appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender"> <to value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" /> <from value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" /> <subject value="ERROR - test Account Process Logging Message" /> <smtpHost value="192.168.1.3" /> <bufferSize value="1" /> <layout type="log4net.Layout.SimpleLayout" /> </appender> --- Usman Uppal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron, I can send email using your sample code on hosted server. > > > > using System.Web.Mail; > > MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage(); > > mailMessage.To = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > > mailMessage.From = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > > mailMessage.Subject = "Subject"; > > mailMessage.Body = "Hello World"; > > SmtpServer.Send(mailMessage); > > > > > > Any other suggestions? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Usman > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ron Grabowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2005 11:33 AM > To: Log4NET User > Subject: RE: LOG4NET - SMTP Appender Not Working > > > > I don't think you mentioned the part about the application being > hosted > > on a 3rd party server. Have you verified that you can send mail on > that > > server? > > > > using System.Web.Mail; > > MailMessage mailMessage = new MailMessage(); > > mailMessage.To = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > > mailMessage.From = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > > mailMessage.Subject = "Subject"; > > mailMessage.Body = "Hello World"; > > SmtpServer.Send(mailMessage); > > > > If you can't send mail, I would extend SmtpAppender and override the > > SendBuffer method to use something like OpenSMTP: > > > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/opensmtp-net/ > > > > The new implementation would be very similiar to the base one: > > > > http://tinyurl.com/a55ec > > http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/logging-log4net/src/Appender/SmtpAppen > der.cs?rev=1.9&view=markup > > > > On a slightly unreleated note, here's a screen shot of log4net's > > SmtpAppender viewed from NLogViewer using nDumbster as a mock > > SmtpServer (thanks to Jarek for cleaning up my code): > > > > http://www.ronosaurus.com/log4net/nlogviewer_ndumbster_log4net.png > > > > That should be helpful in determining what a good bufferSize property > > of the SmtpAppender is so it doesn't queue up messages for days then > > suddenly attempt to send a giant 200mb email. > > > > --- Usman Uppal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Ron, SMTP Appender works on my machine using our internal SMTP host > > > but > > > when I deploy my code on a hosted server (outside of our > environment) > > > that is using different SMTP host, it does not work. > > > > > > Do we need to have Exchange CDO installed on the hosted server? Any > > > other requirements that I should check for? > > > > > > Thanks for your help. > > > > > > Usman
