Thunderbird:Debugging

Basic Debugging

The basic debugging techniques only require a release build of Thunderbird. Developers often ask for logs and other items when they can't reproduce a bug. Adding such information to a bug report can greatly help the developers to find and fix a bug.

Protocol Errors

If a bug looks like its a problem in communicating with the appropriate server, then one of the following forms of logging can be used to generate logs of Thunderbird's attempted communications with the server:

OpenPGP

OpenPGP Debugging / Tracing