Ability to log activity for Mail.app?

Having a major problem trying to establish an IMAP account with Mail.app. I am getting generic errors and thus haven't found anything on this board or google.
Is there a way to trace or log a mail account setup? I do see a why to trace mail activity via terminal but I am looking for something that can troubleshoot the setup issue I am having
Thanks

Open /Applications/Utilities/Console and do either File > Open Console Log, or File > Open System Log, or both, so that Console displays the contents of both system.log and console.log.
Apparently, you can tell Mail to provide detailed log information as described in the following article (I haven’t tried it myself):
Enable detailed Mail.app logging options
Also, Mail comes with a Turn On Logging AppleScript that I haven’t tried either, but that was discussed some time ago in the following thread:
MAIL LOG???
And here is some additional information you may also find useful:
http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter/bugbestpractices.html#Mail

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+ idling
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