[sylpheed:35709] Re: sylpheed.log

Craig freecycle01 at pisquared.net
Thu Aug 1 00:31:06 JST 2013


On Wed, 31 Jul 2013 11:20:15 -0400 Bruce Bowler <bbowler at bigelow.org>
wrote:

> >While perusing my disk, I discovered a very large (several 100 K) file
> >called sylpheed.log.   It appears to contain a transcript of every
> >interaction with my mail servers.  
> >
> >Why is this file created and how do I stop it...
> >
> >Bruce
> 
> A couple of details I left out...
> 
> Sylpheed 3.3.0, 64 bit Windows 7.
> 
> Stopping sylpheed, deleting and restart sylpheed starts a new file.
> 
> I've looked thru the configuration options and didn't see anything
> obvious.

The file is created as a debugging resource. You cannot stop it. Surely
you have enough disk space for a several-hundred k log file....


Craig


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