thunderbird, IMAP, and STARTTLS

[Christopher Aillon]

Paul Iadonisi wrote:
>   This is probably an upstream problem, but I'm just putting my feelers
> out to see if I'm missing something, or thunderbird is missing something
> I consider absolutely essential.  And that's what my subject states. 
> Thunderbird (and Mozilla-Mail, for that matter) doesn't seem to support
> STARTTLS for IMAP.  No, I'm not talking about IMAPS (port 993), but
> honest to goodness STARTTLS over port 143 like it should.
>   So is it me, or is thunderbird really lacking in this area?


If you want to know things like this in the future, all you have to do is 
head over to bugzilla.mozilla.org, enter "STARTTLS" in the box and check 
out the results.  The first bug you are given is

60377 [RFE] Support IMAP STARTTLS command.