
Hi, I'm trying to setup logback for a fairly simple appender configuration.. DEBUG, INFO, WARN: System.out Console Appender, File Appender ERROR: System.err Console Appender, File Appender, SMTPAppender configured for GMail. Following instructions to setup GMail appender, I have the following: Appender config: <!-- Email appender --> <appender name="MailAppender" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender"> <smtpHost>smtp.gmail.com</smtpHost> <smtpPort>465</smtpPort> <ssl>true</ssl> <username>MyUsername</username> <password>MyPassword</password> <to>greg@klout.com</to> <!--<to>ANOTHER_EMAIL_DESTINATION</to> <!– additional destinations are possible –>--> <from>noreply@gmail.com</from> <subject>LOGGED ERROR: %logger{20} - %m</subject> <layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout"> <pattern>%date %-5level %logger{35} - %message%n%xEx{35}</pattern> </layout> </appender> Appender inclusion: <root level="ERROR"> <appender-ref ref="StdErrAppender" /> <appender-ref ref="FileAppender" /> <appender-ref ref="MailAppender" /> </root> All appropriate maven dependencies: logger jars <slf4j.version>1.6.4</slf4j.version> <dependency> <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId> <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId> <version>${slf4j.version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId> <artifactId>logback-access</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId> <artifactId>logback-classic</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>ch.qos.logback</groupId> <artifactId>logback-core</artifactId> <version>1.0.0</version> </dependency> java mail <dependency> <groupId>javax.mail</groupId> <artifactId>mail</artifactId> <version>1.4.4</version> </dependency> All the other appenders work just fine as configured. I see that the SMTPAppender is being loaded w/o error (at least nothing I see reported) .. yet on ERROR nothing gets sent. Username & password are all correct. I've confirmed with our operations that we don't have any special spam filters set up. Thoughts on what could be wrong / what I need to check? Thanks -greg