Error notification on plone 4 - plone

Question

I just want to have email notification when an error is declared in plone 4.
Any ideas of product or any "how-to" ?
Thanks

Answer 1

You can easily configure the built-in email notification for Zope, but we found that adding the mailinglogger package makes the emails a lot more managable.
The package adds:
customisable and dynamic subject lines for emails sent
emails sent with configurable headers for easy filtering
flood protection to ensure the number of emails sent is not excessive
support for SMTP servers that require authentication
configurable log entry filtering
The plone.recipe.zope2instance buildout recipe supports mailinglogger out of the box; simply define a mailinglogger variable in your [instance] part and include the mailinglogger egg:
[instance]
recipe = plone.recipe.zope2instance
eggs +=
mailinglogger
# Other options go here
mailinglogger =
<mailing-logger>
level warning
flood-level 100000
smtp-server localhost
from logger#example.com
to error-receiver#example.com
subject [ServerName Error] [%(hostname)s] %(levelname)s - %(line)s
</mailing-logger>
The package has been invaluable for us on larger clusters, where we configure additional variables per instance to be included in the subject; we can see what instance the problem occurred on directly in the subject.

Answer 2

Configuring mailing-logger is documented at http://pypi.python.org/pypi/plone.recipe.zope2instance but I think that email log notification is built into recent Zope2 releases, so you should now add the following to you [instance] section:
event-log-custom =
<email-notifier>
from server#here.com
to kdie#localhost
subject "anything goes here"
smtp-server 127.0.0.1
</email-notifier>
(example from http://myzope.kedai.com.my/blogs/kedai/44)

Answer 3

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.logbook is handy too.

Answer 4

You need to add an email-notifier to your event-log-custom in buildout.cfg. Unfortunately there's no way to append it to your existing logging configuration but the following will mimic what plone.recipe.zope2instance does for the event log anyway
event-log-custom =
<logfile>
path ${buildout:directory}/var/log/${:_buildout_section_name_}.log
level INFO
</logfile>
<email-notifier>
from server#here.com
to admin#company.com
subject "[Zope alert - ${:_buildout_section_name_}]"
smtp-server localhost
level error
</email-notifier>