Icedove is the Thunderbird email client rebranded by Debian.
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Tips
Display Email User Agent
access the "Config Editor" from Edit->Preferences->Advanced (click "I'll be carefull...")
- search after mailnews.headers.showUserAgent and double click on it to activate it
- restart Icedove and notice that, when viewing a message, below the "To" field the "User agent" is present now
Debugging
Sometimes you need some debug info for tracking down problems, for example to give the maintainer more useful info if you have some trouble with Icedove. To get a digestible output while debugging the application (icedove and used librarys) must have so named "debugging symbols". For the normal use this symbols inside the application not nessesary.
Preparation
There some depencies to get a propper debug output. May be you need to install some additional packages. Once the applications with the debbuging symbols and the tools to get the output while debugging. Boths are nessesary. You will need to install: