wrote:
On Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:51:01 +0000, Tom Francis wrote:


No certificates - never had 'em before, don't have any now.

Might be the problem. You should have some built-ins from Certificate
Authorities. I don't know why you don't, but this might help.

http://codeidol.com/internet/firefox...-Certificates/

Someone previously asked about the ports for your email. Many of the
ISP are going to a secured port for email. You said the problem started
when you upgraded. How many version did you upgrade. Could your
previous version not have supported the secure connections. Thunderbird
2.0 is capable of the secure connections.

POP SSL 995

STMP SSL 465

The certificate that is the problem maybe the security certificate form
the ISP