Supported Standards

This list collects standards that the Thunderbird family of applications currently at least partially implements or supports (in our code base, ignoring things like TCP which we inherit from upstream

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  • ✔ = This line item is supported for the given platform

  • ✖ = This line item is not (yet) supported for the given platform

  • empty = We have not collected the standards information for the given platform yet

  • N/A = The standard does not apply to the given platform

Mail

Spec Name
Spec URLs
Desktop Status
Android Status
Standards Involvement
Comment

POP3

IMAP 4r1

IMAP IDLE

SMTP

NNTP

RSS Feeder

Spec Name
Spec URLs
Desktop Status
Android Status
Standards Involvement
Comment

RSS 0.9

N/A

RSS 2.0

N/A

Atom 0.3

N/A

Atom 1.0

N/A

Mailing Lists

Spec Name
Spec URLs
Desktop Status
Android Status
Standards Involvement
Comment

List Management Headers

Security and Authentication

Spec Name
Spec URLs
Desktop Status
Android Status
Standards Involvement
Comment

MIME

All 3 are supported for both Desktop and Android platforms.

OpenPGP

Kai Engert actively involved

S/MIME version?

oAuth 2.0

Address Book

Spec Name
Spec URLs
Desktop Status
Android Status
Standards Involvement
Comment

vCard

Version 4 used by default

CardDAV

N/A

LDAP

N/A

LDIF

N/A

Supported for import and export

Calendar

Spec Name
Spec URLs
Desktop Status
Android Status
Standards Involvement
Comment

iCalendar

CalDAV

N/A

CalDAV Scheduling

N/A

iTIP

Instant Messaging

Spec Name
Spec URLs
Desktop Status
Android Status
Standards Involvement
Comment

IRC

N/A

IRC TLS Port

N/A

IRC CTCP

N/A

IRC DCC

N/A

IRC SUPPORT

N/A

IRC NAMESX

N/A

IRC MONITOR

N/A

IRC WATCH

N/A

IRCv3 Capability Negotiation

N/A

IRCv3 SASL 3.2

N/A

IRCv3 Message Tags

N/A

IRCv3 Echo Message

N/A

IRCv3 Multi-Prefix

N/A

IRCv3 Server Time

N/A

XMPP

N/A

XEP-0030

N/A

XEP-0045

N/A

XEP-0054

N/A

XEP-0059

N/A

XEP-0078

N/A

XEP-0085

N/A

Typing notifications

XEP-0092

N/A

XEP-0199

N/A

XEP-0203

N/A

XEP-0245

N/A

XEP-0249

N/A

XEP-0280

N/A

XEP-xxxx MUC Avatars

N/A

Matrix

N/A

UI only partially supports the full body of the specificaiton, not tracking on an MSC basis at this time

Olm/Megolm

N/A

OTR

N/A

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