Venerable Monks,

I started using Log4perl some time ago and it is the bees knees, though I only access its most basic functionality. I use it in a cron job that goes something like this:

use Log::Log4perl qw(:easy);
Log::Log4perl->easy_init( { level => $INFO, file => $logfile } );

INFO "Start process...";
# lots of stuff here
my $sender = Email::Stuffer->new;
set_transport($sender); # set up SMTP
# construct email here, then
my $sent = $sender->send;
if ( $sent ) {
    INFO "Email sent...";
}
# ...
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The problem is that this spews out a large amount of log messages from Net::SMTP (including the entire contents of the email) though when I look at the source of that module I can't find any references to Log4perl or any of its directives. I am guessing that one of the Email::Stuffer modules might be causing it. At the moment I use this workaround:

Log::Log4perl->easy_init( { level => $ERROR, file => $logfile } );
my $sender = Email::Stuffer->new;
# etc
my $sent = $sender->send;
Log::Log4perl->easy_init( { level => $INFO, file => $logfile } );
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This suppresses the Net::SMTP messages but I am wondering why my script is controlling this output, and if there is another way to deal with it.

Update: As is often the case I think I have found the answer just after asking the question - when I set up the SMTP transport I have debug => 1 so maybe Log4perl is appropriating the debug messages. Will test later.

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