Mail target

Sends log messages by email using SMTP protocol. 

Configuration Syntax

Parameters

• General Options
• name - Name of the target.
• Layout Options
• header - Header.Layout
• footer - Footer.Layout
• layout - Text to be rendered.Layout Required. Default: ${longdate}|${level:uppercase=true}|${logger}|${message}
• html - Indicates whether to send message as HTML instead of plain text.Boolean Default: False
• addNewLines - Indicates whether to add new lines between log entries.Boolean
• encoding - Encoding to be used for sending e-mail.Encoding Default: UTF8
• Message Options
• subject - Mail subject.Layout Required. Default: Message from NLog on ${machinename}
• to - Recipients' email addresses separated by semicolons (e.g. john@domain.com;jane@domain.com).Layout Required.
• bcc - BCC email addresses separated by semicolons (e.g. john@domain.com;jane@domain.com).Layout
• cc - CC email addresses separated by semicolons (e.g. john@domain.com;jane@domain.com).Layout
• from - Sender's email address (e.g. joe@domain.com).Layout Required.
• body - Mail message body (repeated for each log message send in one mail).Layout Default: ${message}
  Alias for the Layout property.
• SMTP Options
• smtpUserName - Username used to connect to SMTP server (used when SmtpAuthentication is set to "basic").Layout
• 
  enableSsl - Indicates whether SSL (secure sockets layer) should be used when communicating with SMTP server.Boolean Default: False

  This parameter is not supported in:

  • NLog v1.0 for .NET Framework 1.0
  • NLog v1.0 for .NET Framework 1.1
  • NLog v1.0 for .NET Framework 2.0
• smtpPassword - Password used to authenticate against SMTP server (used when SmtpAuthentication is set to "basic").Layout
• smtpAuthentication - SMTP Authentication mode. Default: None
  Possible values:
  • Basic - Basic - username and password.
  • None - No authentication.
  • Ntlm - NTLM Authentication.
• smtpServer - SMTP Server to be used for sending.Layout Required.
• smtpPort - Port number that SMTP Server is listening on.Integer Default: 25