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To view some details about the processing of messages, you may set a preference in Thunderbird. Open preferences, general, find the config editor. Add a new preference of the name temp.openpgp.logDirectory and set it to a string value, which must be the full name of a temporary directory, for example on Linux or macOS you could use value /tmp/ . Once set, Thunderbird will write messages to a file named enigdbug.txt in that directory. The log will have a lot of information, most of which is harmless or not interesting. But it may contain clues about the cause of a problem. | To view some details about the processing of messages, you may set a preference in Thunderbird. Open preferences, general, find the config editor. Add a new preference of the name temp.openpgp.logDirectory and set it to a string value, which must be the full name of a temporary directory, for example on Linux or macOS you could use value /tmp/ . Once set, Thunderbird will write messages to a file named enigdbug.txt in that directory. The log will have a lot of information, most of which is harmless or not interesting. But it may contain clues about the cause of a problem. | ||
If you're trying to analyze a problem in the migration process that is performed by the Enigmail 2.2.x Add-on, please set the additional preference extensions.enigmail.logDirectory - it must also be set to a directory, but that must be a different directory than above. For example, create a directory named /tmp/enig22 and set extensions.enigmail.logDirectory to string value /tmp/enig22 . If you set both variables, then two separate files will be created, both named enigdbug.txt | |||
Advanced users may attempt to view internal error messages produced by the OpenPGP cryptographic engine that Thunderbird uses (the RNP library). To do so, you need to set the environment variable called RNP_LOG_CONSOLE, e.g. in a Linux terminal you could do that using the command export RNP_LOG_CONSOLE=1. Then you must start Thunderbird from within that terminal window, to ensure that it will see the environment variable that you have set. | Advanced users may attempt to view internal error messages produced by the OpenPGP cryptographic engine that Thunderbird uses (the RNP library). To do so, you need to set the environment variable called RNP_LOG_CONSOLE, e.g. in a Linux terminal you could do that using the command export RNP_LOG_CONSOLE=1. Then you must start Thunderbird from within that terminal window, to ensure that it will see the environment variable that you have set. | ||
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