Often you will find yourself in situation that needs a little bit of debugging. I am today, something in my Icedove mail client(thunderbird) is not right, keeps connecting to the server with 15 - 30 connections at the same time, so I wanted to know what’s going on. I figured maybe there will be some options available in the program, however, it’s not there.
Surprisingly, logging of Thunderbird has to be done outside the program. Here’s how I did it, on both Debian and Windows machine.
On Debian
All you need to do is prepare a shell script on your desktop, double click it to run Thunderbird instead of your previous desktop icon. Name the file runTB.sh, or any name you prefer.
Codes:
#!/bin/sh
MYDATE=`date ”+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S”`
NSPR_LOG_MODULES=POP3:4,SMTP:4
NSPR_LOG_FILE=~/Desktop/icedove_${MYDATE}.log
export NSPR_LOG_MODULES NSPR_LOG_FILE
/usr/bin/icedove &
exit $?
Tags: howto, logging, mozilla, thunderbird
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Tue, July 24 2007 » Open Source, Softwares, Tips » No Comments
How many email account do you have? I personally have 7, and more to come. Why so much? You may ask, to me it’s all about getting things organized. In this information age, one would be involved in so many Internet activities that will require email account for registration. Social networks, forums, blogs, newsgroups, membership websites, affiliate networks and many more. All these require email account in order to register, receive updates or receive newsletter. So ask yourself, is one email account enough for all of these?
In my case, all these information don’t cross, as each kind of activity has its own associated email account. Let me get in details here. Categorize the activities you are involved in on the Internet, give each of these categories an email account. Look at my example below.
Tags: account, email, mozilla, thunderbird, Tips
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Sun, April 15 2007 » Softwares, Tips, WWW » No Comments
I’ve stumbled upon this nice firefox extension, it is a FTP client fully integrated into Firefox web browser, and most of all, like other firefox extensions, it is totally free. This is the extension’s home page, or you can get the extension at mozilla add-on page. This extension is only 102kb, and it is again platform independent.
Here’s a screenshot of it.
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Fri, December 1 2006 » WWW, Web Browser » 2 Comments
A browser is a program you use to read this post now.(Just in case you do not know, no offence yo!)
Is there only one?
Now the question, how many browser do you use? If you are one of the dominating Windows XP users, I bet there’s only one you use. Internet Explorer. And why is that? It is only because Internet Explorer 6 is preinstalled with new copy of Windows XP. You get it free. Do you like it? Do you enjoy using it? I doubt that not much of you can really answer this, because there’s no comparison.
Bad experience..
I have Opera, Mozzilla and firefox installed on my debian box. No Microsoft, no Windows, no Internet Explorer, I’m done with those. Let’s not talk about flavor of operating system. I wonder if any of you, always turns on the Automatic Live Update in Windows like I used to do? Now this is the biggest drawback of MS that annoyed me to the maximum, day by day, my windows received updates, and mostly start with “Internet Explorer Security Update/Patch/Fix” and so on. The system disk (Drive C: or whatever your windows installed on) got bloated very fast. I used to install programs/games on a seperate harddisk, so my drive C: was only for windows. Only windows itself took 9GB+ of the harddisk space.
Tags: browser, internet, mozilla, web, WWW
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Thu, July 27 2006 » WWW » No Comments
