Mailing Exception logs in a live Grails webapp

Question

I\'d like my Grails web-app to send an e-mail for each exception that reaches the end-user.

Basically I\'m looking for a elegant way to achieve something equivalent to:<

Answer 1

Turns out this exact question was answered on the Grails mailing list a couple of days ago.

The solution is to add the following to the log4j-section of Config.groovy:

log4j {
    ...
    appender.mail='org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender'
    appender.'mail.To'='email@example.com'
    appender.'mail.From'='email@example.com'
    appender.'mail.SMTPHost'='localhost'
    appender.'mail.BufferSize'=4096
    appender.'mail.Subject'='App Error'
    appender.'mail.layout'='org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout'
    appender.'mail.layout.ConversionPattern'='[%r] %c{2} %m%n'
    rootLogger="error,stdout,mail"
    ...
    // rootLogger="error,stdout" (old rootLogger)
}

Plus adding sun-javamail.jar and activation.jar to the lib/-folder.