RE: SmtpAppender not working on 3rd party hosting provider

[Pete Heist]

It's narrowed down a bit. If I set:

<trust level="Medium"/>

on my development machine, the SmtpAppender fails silently, while my
RollingFileAppenders still work. Incidently, I've got my log4net.config file
in a separate file, rather than in my web.config file. This appears to be
working OK, but as I've seen a post about log4net configuration and medium
trust here:

http://blogs.advantaje.com/blog/kevin/Net/2006/06/29/log4Net-and-ASP-Net-Med
ium-Trust.html

it makes me suspicious.

thanks,
Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Heist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:09 PM
To: 'Log4NET User'
Subject: RE: SmtpAppender not working on 3rd party hosting provider

Hi Dean,

Yes, even if smtpHost is specified in log4net.config, it still doesn't send.
Looking at SmtpAppender.cs in log4net, if I set smtpHost, it's the same code
path except that the Host property on SmtpClient is explicitly set. Knowing
that my test page works without setting the Host property explicitly, I can
tell that SmtpClient is picking up the right host from the <mailSettings>
section in my web.config file anyway:

<mailSettings>
  <smtp>
    <network host="relay-hosting.secureserver.net" port="25"/>
  </smtp>
</mailSettings>

thanks,
Pete

-----Original Message-----
From: Dean Fiala [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 3:54 PM
To: 'Log4NET User'
Subject: RE: SmtpAppender not working on 3rd party hosting provider

Have you tried specifiying the smtp server to use in your log4net config
file...

<smtpHost value="mail.somedomain.com" /> 

-----Original Message-----
From: Pete Heist [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:05 AM
To: log4net-user@logging.apache.org
Subject: SmtpAppender not working on 3rd party hosting provider

I'm trying to figure out a situation where the SmtpAppender in my ASP.NET
3.5 application works properly on my development machine, but not on GoDaddy
shared hosting.

This might be easier, except that I can't see the output when
log4net.Internal.Debug = true at GoDaddy, because we have no access to, and
cannot add a listener for the System.Diagnostics output.

Some points:

- This works on my development machine with the same log4net.config.
However, in my web.config, of course, the SMTP server information is
different for development and production.

- Other logs from my RollingFileAppender appear properly, so log4net is
working.

- I know that I can send email, because a test page coded as follows in
production works:

    {
    string sFrom = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
    string sTo = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]";
    string sSubject = "test email to debug log4net on GoDaddy";
    string sBody = "Why are log4net email notifications not working on
GoDaddy?";

    MailMessage message = new MailMessage(sFrom, sTo, sSubject, sBody);

    SmtpClient client = new SmtpClient();

    client.Send(message);
    }

- My appender in log4net.config looks like this:

  <!-- sends an SMTP email (application log) -->
  <appender name="ApplicationSmtpAppender"
type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender">
    <from value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" />
    <to value="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" />
    <subject value="Application log" />
    <bufferSize value="50" />
    <lossy value="true" />
    <evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator">
      <threshold value="WARN"/>
    </evaluator>
    <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
      <conversionPattern value="%date [%thread] %-5level %logger
[%property{CurrentUser}] - %message%newline" />
    </layout>
  </appender>

Does anyone either know what this could be, or have another suggestion for
debugging it short of recompiling log4net with custom instrumenting code
that writes to a file?

thanks,
Pete