I am trying to create a simple handler in my app that would inform me if there’s a problem in my scripts (think of it as a very simple notification version of Sentry).

In the __init__.py file, I set this code:

import logging
import logging.handlers

smtp_handler = logging.handlers.SMTPHandler(mailhost=("smtp.gmail.com", 587),
                                            fromaddr="[email protected]",
                                            toaddrs="[email protected]",
                                            subject="EXCEPTION",
                                            credentials=('[email protected]', 'my_password'),
                                            secure=())


a = logging.getLogger('sreality')
a.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)   # set root's level

smtp_handler.setLevel(logging.ERROR)
a.addHandler(smtp_handler)

To test it out, I put into my code a non-existing variable that caused an error (visible in terminal):

NameError: name 'xresponse' is not defined

My expectation was that I would receive an email with NameError: name 'xresponse' is not defined (and ideally the traceback) to my inbox. However – that did not happen.

What am I overlooking? The whole purpose of it is to be notified when there’s an error that’s preventing the program to finish.