[jira] [Commented] (LOG4J2-252) SMTPAppender: send multiple events in one mail

["Anthony Baldocchi (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Anthony Baldocchi commented on LOG4J2-252:
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This could be useful for networked appenders other than SMTPAppender (such as HTTPAppender).  I'm imagining a scenario where multiple events are batched, perhaps converted to a complete JSON layout, and then POSTed to a target server.

> SMTPAppender: send multiple events in one mail
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: LOG4J2-252
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4J2-252
>             Project: Log4j 2
>          Issue Type: Wish
>            Reporter: Matej Vitásek
>
> I am using Log4j 2 for a Tomcat web application to send me an e-mail whenever an ERROR occurs. Usually, more than one error is produced at one time, and I get a lot of e-mails over a period of a few seconds.
> It would be great if the SMTPAppender could cluster more events into one mail. Of course, one has to be sure that Log4j 2 is not waiting too long to send me the errors, which could be solved by a timeout setting.
> So I propose the following: add a new timeout setting to the SMTPAppender. Whenever an event that would trigger sending a mail occurs, wait for timeout seconds and bundle whatever else events occur into this mail. Only then send the mail.



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