Spring boot - sending emails with Logback

Question

I am trying to configure Logback to send emails whenever an exception (Logging level: ERROR) occurs. I have not been able to make it work so far so I would like to ask for y

Answer 1

Default entry for port in smtpappender is 25, gmail is using authentication for smtp services, and you need use ports 587 for TLS and 465 for SSL.

I would say this might be your problem.

Try to setup mail server on your local machine first without authentication, and try is your appended works. then try to find how to configure it for gmail.

From page http://logback.qos.ch/manual/appenders.html#gmailSTARTTLS

SMTPAppender for Gmail (STARTTLS)

   
  
    smtp.gmail.com
    587
    true
    YOUR_USERNAME@gmail.com
    YOUR_GMAIL_xPASSWORD
    
    EMAIL-DESTINATION
    ANOTHER_EMAIL_DESTINATION 
    YOUR_USERNAME@gmail.com
    TESTING: %logger{20} - %m
    
      %date %-5level %logger - %message%n