According to documentation, there is no Ssl property for SmtpAppender. According source code it is named EnableSsl, so repair your config. But I'm not sure if it helps... Radovan Raszka
________________________________ From: Sree [mailto:sree.opt...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 12:30 PM To: 'log4net-user@logging.apache.org' Subject: Error while sending Mail to smtp.gmail.com --> I'm able to successfully send mail using .net code through gmail by enabling SSL. But using log4net its given error: My Code in app.config file: <appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender"> <to value="myusern...@gmail.com" /> <from value=" myusern...@gmail.com " /> <subject value="test logging message" /> <smtpHost value="smtp.gmail.com" /> <authentication value = "Basic" /> <username value = " myusern...@gmail.com " /> <password value = "mypassword" /> <ssl value ="true"/> <port value ="465"/> <bufferSize value="512" /> <lossy value="true" /> <evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator"> <threshold value="ALL"/> </evaluator> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout"> <conversionPattern value="%newline%date [%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline%newline%newline" /> </layout> </appender> Getting error: log4net:ERROR [SmtpAppender] Error occurred while sending e-mail notification. System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: The operation has timed out. at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message) at log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender.SendEmail(String messageBody) at log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender.SendBuffer(LoggingEvent[] events) I tried using STARTTLS protocol also...which gave me an error with authentication and so.... Please help me out....I deadly need it work it down... Best regards, Sree