The GSSAPI support in Thunderbird has never returned particularly great error messages. In particular, if the server offers GSSAPI, and nothing else, you'll get told that the server doesn't support secure authentication when login fails.
For some reason, this error message seems to annoy people ...
We can't give 'real' error messages whenever GSSAPI fails, because we try GSSAPI whenever the server offers it, and there are lots of broken Linux installations out there which offer GSSAPI whenever the appropriate libraries are installed, regardless of whether the server has suitable key material or not.
So, it looks like Thunderbird needs to have some UI to say whether GSSAPI is supported or not. Of course, Jeff Altman said as much back in 2005...
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