Re: Debugging pine sessions
On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Anthony Fok wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:
>
> > > I could see your point about -DDEBUG not being appropriate for a
> > > production program if the resultant output was only useful for debugging
> > > Pine. However, the principal use of this information is for debugging
> > > pine /sessions/ (and the default debug level can be set accordingly).
> >
> > Again, there must be very few people interested on this.
>
> I disagree. The debug feature is a standard Pine behaviour. I was very
> surprised disappointed when I discovered that I couldn't use the debug
> option at all (I was having some problem with Pine and the SMTP server
> (exim), and I would like to check the .pine-debug? files to see what was
> going on.)
>
> Therefore, I think the -DDEBUG flag should be turned on by default. If
> some user is annoyed with the .pine-debug? files, they can always use the
> -d 0 option. At least, let the user make the decision instead of
> eliminating the -d option entirely.
Having got my debian pine 3.96 working correctly, the university has
upgraded their IMAP server from a beta version to a production version. The
effect is that my client can no longer read the inbox correctly. I get
various access errors and bogus times of 0/0/70 0:0:0 +0000. Without the
debug files, it's difficult to pinpoint what's going on, and I get no
help from the server end as pine is not supported. However, their pine
3.91 client does seem to work, so for the time being I shall give up on
the debian version, unless someone has already encountered this problem
and can suggest a fix.
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David Wright, Open University, Earth Science Department, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA
U.K. email: d.wright@open.ac.uk tel: +44 1908 653 739 fax: +44 1908 655 151
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