How to generate additional logging for outbound email from Crowd

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Summary

An admin may need to review diagnostic details of outbound emails as generated from Crowd for debugging issues related to notifications.

Environment

  • Crowd

  • Integrated Mail Server

Solution

You can see finer, diagnostic details about outbound emails by adding some additional logging on the mail handler classes.

⚠️ Please note that this logging can be quite noisy and should only be used for diagnostic purposes. Use sparingly and be sure to remove the logging once it is no longer needed.

  1. Navigate to

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    > Logging & Profiling

  2. From the Logging & Profiling page, add the following class and set the drop down to ALL

    1 com.sun.mail
  3. Select the Update Logging button to save the changes.

Updated on April 2, 2025

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