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   ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 07:22:39 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

   thunderbird users: does this software have any way to figure out why it refuses to download mail via IMAP, or am i supposed to divine it out via prophetic dream?

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     ✧✦Catherine✦✧ (whitequark@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 07:39:38 JST ✧✦Catherine✦✧

     the way to find out why thunderbird refuses to log into IMAP is, apparently, this:

     $ export MOZ_LOG=IMAP:5,timestamp MOZ_LOG_FILE=thunderbirdlog
     $ thunderbird

     (it didn't like it that the certificate for imaps:// has expired and chose to not surface this fact in any way whatsoever)

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     a kilo of saucepans (rakslice) (rakslice@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 09:15:32 JST a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)

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     @whitequark I assume something must be broken in thunderbird imap; my world's most boring bone stock ISP e-mail setup with it also stopped working recently and I haven't bothered to figure out why