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
POP3
✔
✔
IMAP 4r1
✔
✔
IMAP IDLE
✔
✔
SMTP
✔
✔
NNTP
✔
✔
RSS Feeder
RSS 0.9
✔
N/A
RSS 2.0
✔
N/A
Atom 0.3
✔
N/A
Atom 1.0
✔
N/A
Mailing Lists
List Management Headers
✔
✔
Security and Authentication
MIME
✔
✔
All 3 are supported for both Desktop and Android platforms.
OpenPGP
✔
✔
Kai Engert actively involved
S/MIME version?
✔
✖
oAuth 2.0
✔
✔
Address Book
vCard
✔
✖
Version 4 used by default
CardDAV
✔
N/A
LDAP
✔
N/A
LDIF
✔
N/A
Supported for import and export
Calendar
iCalendar
✔
✖
CalDAV
✔
N/A
CalDAV Scheduling
N/A
iTIP
✔
✖
Instant Messaging
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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