I suspect this is a bug in Thunderbird, but wanted to check to see if anyone else has had similar problems before raising it with them.
I've been running SME for almost 2 years now, and use Thunderbird as my mail client on all my PC's. Recently I have been unable to set up a new IMAP email account on Thunderbird for SME. Any existing accounts that were set up many moons ago (using an older version of Thunderbird) work fine.
Thunderbird detects the mail servers correctly, and configures the account, but fails when verifying the account. On doing a google search there have been problems with IMAP, Thunderbird and passwords with special characters in them (such as !,? and &), but most appear to have been resolved.
I can set up an IMAP email account for my gmail account and it works fine (password also contains special characters).
Thanks in anticipation