1371498 - IMAP log not produced with Thunderbird 52.1.1 and possibly earlier version

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[gene smith]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Build ID: 20170526184742

Steps to reproduce:

In window set env vars in cmd window
set NSPR_LOG_FILE="c:\Users\gene\tbird_log.txt"
set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=IMAP:5

then run thunderbird:
"c:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe"


Actual results:

Thunderbird runs but no log file pointed to by NSPR_LOG_FILE is produced.


Expected results:

Log file c:\Users\gene\tbird_log.txt should be created and contain IMAP related info.

This works OK on linux with the HEAD development version that I build myself.  It also works OK on Tb version 52.1.1 on linux.

This was found while troubleshooting Bug 1366591, see Comment 36

Comment 1

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This works for me using the latest daily TB 52 ESR Tinderbox build.

I start TB with a .bat file on Windows 7:
set NSPR_LOG_FILE=D:\Desktop\tb-imap_log.txt
set NSPR_LOG_MODULES=IMAP:5
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Thunderbird\thunderbird.exe" -p Testing -no-remote

Comment 2

[gene smith]

After setting the NSPR_LOG_FILE *without* quotes it works OK on win 7 and 10. Don't know why that matters. Sorry, so guess not a bug. 
Just for the record, I manually set the env vars per comment 0 and ran tb from cmd line but didn't include the parameters '-p Testing -no-remote' and it produced the imap log. I also did this after rebooting win7 and win10 but doubt that had any effect; it was the quotes that messed it up.

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Works for me ;-)

Comment 4

[gene smith]

One more observation. If there is whitespace in the log file path you still don't put quotes around the NSPR_LOG_FILE string in windows, e.g., do like this at cmd line or in .bat file:
set NSPR_LOG_FILE=c:\Users\gene\with space\imap.log
However, quotes are required on linux (and probably OSX) with bash shell, e.g.:
export NSPR_LOG_FILE="/home/gene/with space/imap.log"

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I have updated https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging to cover quotation marks.