appender-ref to SMTPAppender knocks out log4j

[Eric Jain <Er...@isb-sib.ch>]

As soon as I uncomment "<appender-ref ref="mail"/>" in the example given 
below, log4j is no longer picked up (by commons-logging). Is there anything 
wrong with the configuration? There is no error message or warning!


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">

<log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j="http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/">

   <appender name="console" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
     <param name="Target" value="System.out"/>
     <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
       <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm} %c%n 
%p: %m%n"/>
     </layout>
   </appender>

   <appender name="mail" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender">
     <param name="BufferSize" value="1"/>
     <param name="SMTPHost" value="mail..."/>
     <param name="From" value="noreply@..."/>
     <param name="To" value="me@..."/>
     <param name="Subject" value="[LOG] ..."/>
     <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
       <param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm} %c%n 
%p: %m%n"/>
     </layout>
   </appender>

   <logger name="org...">
     <level value="debug"/>
   </logger>

   <root>
     <priority value ="warn"/>
     <appender-ref ref="console"/>
     <!-- <appender-ref ref="mail"/> -->
   </root>

</log4j:configuration>


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