Hello,

I've been struggling with SMTPAppender using the PatternLayout. No matter what I set the pattern to, it kept sending out the entire exception stack trace. I thought it was appearing because of the %m so I thought I was doing the format specifiers incorrectly (%-1.100m). Come to find out that the SMTPAppender class is taking it upon itself to append the stack trace to the email message. Actually, it is only doing this if the Layout class says that it "ignores the throwable", which PatternLayout does.

So, is my solution to this problem to write a new Layout class that claims that is doesn't ignore the throwable (which it actually will!)? I just want to make sure that this is the intended path to go down to hide the stack trace from the logger output.

BTW, before anyone thinks I'm throwing away the stack trace, I'm not. The stack trace is being output to the physical log file. I just don't want to include it in the email message I'm sending, and I REALLY don't want to include it in the message I'm sending to my pager!!

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.

--- regards --- Larry