What is the proper way to configure SMTPAppender in log4j?

Question

I\'m trying to configure log4j to use the SMTPAppender but I keep getting relay access denied errors. I get this error when executing my code on my laptop AND

Answer 1

Turns out I just had the properties all wrong. Should be:

#CONFIGURE SMTP
log4j.appender.email=org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender
log4j.appender.email.SMTPHost=mail.mydomain.com
log4j.appender.email.SMTPUsername=myuser@mydomain.com
log4j.appender.email.SMTPPassword=mypw
log4j.appender.email.From=myuser@mydomain.com
log4j.appender.email.BufferSize=1
log4j.appender.email.EvaluatorClass=TriggerLogEvent
log4j.appender.email.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.email.layout.ConversionPattern=%m