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Asked: 2026-06-11T10:01:09+00:00

Is there any way to send an email using Java log4j via an exchange

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Is there any way to send an email using Java log4j via an exchange server that only allows NTLM-based authentication?

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    The default appender relies just on SMTP auth, so it won’t make it by itself. You could create a custom email appender as stated here (linked just to state who shared the idea first, it’s not mine). It basically creates the appender where Authentication is done

    import java.util.Properties;

import javax.mail.Authenticator;
import javax.mail.PasswordAuthentication;
import javax.mail.Session;

import org.apache.log4j.net.SMTPAppender;

/**
* @author DEV
*
*/
public class GmailAppender extends SMTPAppender {
private boolean startTLS = false;

@Override
protected Session createSession() {
Properties props = null;
try {
props = new Properties(System.getProperties());
} catch (SecurityException ex) {
props = new Properties();
}
String prefix = "mail.smtp";
if (this.getSMTPProtocol() != null) {
props.put("mail.transport.protocol", this.getSMTPProtocol());
prefix = "mail." + this.getSMTPProtocol();
}

if (this.getSMTPHost() != null)
props.put(prefix + ".host", this.getSMTPHost());
if (this.getSMTPPort() > 0)
props.put(prefix + ".port", String.valueOf(this.getSMTPPort()));
if (this.startTLS)
props.put("mail.smtp.starttls.enable", "true");

Authenticator auth = null;
if (this.getSMTPPassword() != null && this.getSMTPUsername() != null) {
props.put(prefix + ".auth", "true");
auth = new Authenticator() {
...

    And then, in the config file,

    #email appender
log4j.appender.mail=com.horri.GmailAppender
#defines how othen emails are send
log4j.appender.mail.BufferSize=1
log4j.appender.mail.SMTPHost=smtp.gmail.com
log4j.appender.mail.From=yourmail@servermail.com
log4j.appender.mail.To=yourmail@gmail.com
log4j.appender.mail.startTLS = true
log4j.appender.mail.SMTPUsername=yourgmailusername
log4j.appender.mail.SMTPPassword=yourgmailpasswd
log4j.appender.mail.Subject=Log ...
log4j.appender.mail.threshold=error
log4j.appender.mail.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.mail.layout.ConversionPattern=%d{ABSOLUTE} %5p %c{1}:%L - %m%n

    **EDIT: Sometimes helpful gets mixed with “laziness-supportive”. Hence, here’s a apache-licensed implementation of NTLM auth. http://code.google.com/p/ntlm-java/ Hope it works fine.

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