J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Jacques HADDI
writes:
Now, even my email is giving me security errors. I am using Thunderbird
2.0.0.24. I am not sure if this is the final version of TB to work in
Win98, but I have used it for decades and have never seen a reason to
upgrade it. It has always worked fine. Personally, I could care less
about security with my email. I talk to friends about cars, pets, and
general chit-chat. Nothing that needs to be secure and nothing worth
securing.

i can tell you that i still use Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 with win98
everyday for emails and newsgroup and it works fine.

jh

It's possible that person: you've snipped the attribution headers!'s
ISP has recently changed how its mail server interacts with customers,
and yours hasn't.

This message:

"Thunderbird cant connect securely to website-archive.mozilla.org
because it uses a security protocol which isnt enabled."

comes from the graphical initialization page that Thunderbird
downloads from Mozilla at startup. The graphic is placed in the lower
right pane. The first message you review, fills the screen with text and
removed the graphic.

This scheme allows Mozilla to use the lower right pane
as a "billboard" at program startup.

When your version of Thunderbird is current, the billboard will
say "Welcome to Thunderbird" and present P.R. material in support
of whatever their favorite feature is. If your copy of
Thunderbird is older, Mozilla will redirect the attempt to fetch
that page, to a page that says "You should upgrade now, this version
is obsolete".

In the case of the OP, not only did they redirect the http://
the browser used, they replaced it with https:// and used
a security standard the Firefox engine inside Thunderbird
on that edition, does not support.

When your version of Thunderbird is old enough, they don't
even bother to wire up that stupid scheme, and the lower right
pane simply contains an error message about the link being missing.
There is no page on the Mozilla server by that name, and
there is also no redirect to some other page (http or https).

In Thunderbird prefs, you can change the "initial startup screen"
URL, to something less obnoxious, to stop this.

Paul