Thread: Emailing logging reports

Hello!

I've been working on a lesson in logging in Java, formatting in XML. I'm trying to add an appender to e-mail the error log, but can't seem to get it to work. Is there a piece I'm missing? The rest of my appenders are working fine. The error I get is that it cannot create an appender of this type. The console also seems to think that I defined the appender after I call for it, but it is above. Here is what I put together:

<appender name="EMAIL" class="ch.qos.logback.classic.net.SMTPAppender" >
<filter class="ch.qos.logback.classic.filter.LevelFilter">
<level>ERROR</level>
<onMatch>ACCEPT</onMatch>
<onMismatch>DENY</onMismatch>
</filter>

<SMTPHost>${smtpHost}</SMTPHost>
<to>${emailRecipient}</to>
<from>${emailSender}</from>
<subject>${emailSubject} - Job: ${com.minnesotamutual.jobName}</subject>

<layout class="ch.qos.logback.classic.PatternLayout">
<pattern>%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS} [%thread] %-5level %logger{36} - %msg%n</pattern>
</layout>
</appender>


And then call it within the logger:
<appender-ref ref="EMAIL" />

Any help is greatly appreciated! I'm very new at this. Thank you!

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