Log4Net SmtpAppender not working in .netCore

Question

I'm trying to send log messages to my gmail account but it keeps not working. I've tried changing ports and changing threshold value but it's not working. When I try writing logs in file everything is ok, so I think the problem is in log4net.config file.

My log4net configuration file contains:

    <log4net>
     <appender name="SmtpAppender" type="log4net.Appender.SmtpAppender">
      <to value="[email protected]" />
      <from value="[email protected]" />
      <subject value="Crash log" />
      <smtpHost value="smtp.gmail.com" />
      <authentication value="Basic" />
      <port value="465" />
      <username value="myusername" />
      <password value="mypass" />
      <bufferSize value="1" />
      <EnableSsl value="true"/>
      <lossy value="true" />
     <evaluator type="log4net.Core.LevelEvaluator">
       <threshold value="DEBUG"/>
     </evaluator>
     <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
       <conversionPattern value="%-5p %d{hh:mm:ss} %message%newline" />
     </layout>
   </appender>
   <root>
     <level value="DEBUG"/>
     <appender-ref ref="SmtpAppender"/>
   </root>
   </log4net>

In my Startup.cs file I have:

var logRepository = LogManager.GetRepository(Assembly.GetEntryAssembly());
            XmlConfigurator.Configure(logRepository, new FileInfo("log4net.config"));

And my example code is:

public class HomeController : Controller
    {
        private static readonly ILog log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(HomeController));

        public HomeController()
        {

        }

        public IActionResult Index()
        {
            return View();
        }

        public IActionResult About()
        {

            ViewData["Message"] = "Your application description page.";
            ViewData["Title"] = "title";
            log.Warn("test test", new NullReferenceException("missing"));
            log.Debug("test test", new NullReferenceException("missing"));
            log.Error("test test", new NullReferenceException("missing"));
            log.Fatal("test test", new NullReferenceException("missing"));
            return View();
        }
    }

Am I making something wrong. I tried everything

Answer 1

log4net's SmtpAppender is not supported in .net core yet.

Supported frameworks: https://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/framework-support.html