Enterprise Library: Logging Block and Email

Question

Does anyone have a tutorial link or an example on how to use the Logging block to send out error email?

Jack

Answer 1

You need to set up an EmailTraceListener in the Logging Application Block.

You can use the Enterprise Library UI but the web.config section ends up looking something like this:

This will work providing your SMTP server is set up correctly. You can use Telnet to check that by sending command line email.