Email Logger Questions

[Derrick Jackson]

MachII-ers,

I have two questions about the Email Loggers:

1. Is there a way to set the "To" email logger property as an Environment property of development, staging, or production?  I want to be able to have email logging turned on but go to different email addresses based on the current environment.
2. If an error occurs that triggers the email logger, outside of writing the code myself, is there a way to prevent emails from the logger to be sent over and over again?  

Thanks

[Brian Klaas]

Hi Derrick -

I don't believe that setting a "To" property for the bundled MachIIEmailLog is possible. You have to define it in the logging config XML.

You could clone the bundled MachII.logging.loggers.EmailLog.Logger, rename it to something else, modify it to pull the appropriate email address as a property from the environment, and point to that as your email logger in the logging config XML.

The answer to question 2 is: you have to write the code yourself. The email logger will send an email each and every time an error message is generated. It's for this reason that we don't use the email logger in development but instead only turn it on in testing and production.

brian

[Derrick Jackson]

Brian,

Thanks for the response.  I think I may actually modify the Email Logger to check for the existence of an Environment Property "To".  If it exists I will use it.  Otherwise I'll have it use the property value specified in the logger.  I'll prob submit this enhancement to the MachII team to see if this is something they'd like to incorporate.  As far as only having the logger turned on in production, this is something we do as well, but what we did not want is to have a user encounter an error and us receive 50 email about the same thing.  Kinda figured we'd have to handle that in the code but just thought I'd check.

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