Thunderbird NSPR debug log always empty
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: raysatiro, Unassigned)
Details
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/77.0.3865.75 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
NSPR_LOG_FILE=C:\imap.log
NSPR_LOG_MODULES=imap:5,smtp:5,pop3:5,timestamp,sync
Actual results:
The debug log is 0 bytes. Notepad++ tells me it's modified but whenever I reload it it's still 0 bytes.
Expected results:
All debug data should be output immediately like it was in previous versions. Today I am trying to debug a problem connecting to yahoo's IMAP server and I can't do that because no debug information is written. I thought maybe a buffer wasn't flushed or something so I've tried exiting the program but there's no change. I've repeated this several times.
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Comment 1•7 years ago
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Which version did you use before? The options are case sensitive, so "imap" hasn't worked for a while. See: https://wiki.mozilla.org/MailNews:Logging
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Comment 2•7 years ago
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better and works on all platforms:
MOZ_LOG_FILE=C:\imap.log
MOZ_LOG=IMAP:5,SMTP:5,POP3:5,timestamp,sync
Have to run tb after these are defined.
The NSPR thing is deprecated but I thought it still works. Also, thought case-insensitive on windows, not on linux, don't know about apple.
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Comment 3•7 years ago
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I wouldn't count on NSPR_LOG_xx working. The following worked for me
MOZ_LOG_FILE=C:\temp\imap.log
MOZ_LOG=imap:5,smtp:5,pop3:5,timestamp,sync
I doubt there is a bug. The documenation might not be solid on case senstivity - it was stolen from some bug report or other doc.
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Comment 4•7 years ago
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Thanks for the examples. I played around with them and what has changed is the lowercase no longer works here whereas it did for prior versions. Either of these work with Thunderbird 68 on Windows 7 Enterprise:
NSPR_LOG_FILE=C:\imap.log
NSPR_LOG_MODULES=IMAP:5,SMTP:5,POP3:5,timestamp,sync
MOZ_LOG_FILE=C:\temp\imap.log
MOZ_LOG=IMAP:5,SMTP:5,POP3:5,timestamp,sync
I don't know whether it is a bug that lowercase no longer works. If you want me to test anything it's no problem let me know.
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Comment 5•7 years ago
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The documentation says that this is now case-sensitive, and yes, this has changed.
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