The credentials requested during account set-up seem typical to me. Is there a specific problem that you want to solve or something that you would like to do that you do not know how to do?

What I am wondering about (still have not implemented passkeys on my email accounts) is that how does it work for logging in with Thunderbird. With username and password it is relatively easy to set that up in the accounts on Thunderbird. Passkeys don't have a password, or more accurately one that is known to the user to put in the setup for the accounts.

I'm sorry that I do not know anything about passkeys and Thunderbird. Maybe someone else can help.

This information tells you how to do it with WWPass: https://www.wwpass.com/pdf/docs/WWPassSecurityThunderbird.pdf

Maybe that is useful, at least as an example. There are also Reddit discussions about Thunderbird and passkeys.

What I am wondering about ... is that how does it work for logging in with Thunderbird.

It doesn't work. At this time Thunderbird does not support passkeys.

At least one vendor does it. See, at least as an example: https://www.wwpass.com/pdf/docs/WWPassSecurityThunderbird.pdf

What I am wondering about ... is that how does it work for logging in with Thunderbird.

It doesn't work. At this time Thunderbird does not support passkeys.

So if I understand you correctly, If you want to use Thunderbird for your email, you can't enable passkeys on sites such as GMail, etc?

At least one vendor does it. See, at least as an example: https://www.wwpass.com/pdf/docs/WWPassSecurityThunderbird.pdf

I'll have to take a look at this,

thanks

At least one vendor does it. See, at least as an example: https://www.wwpass.com/pdf/docs/WWPassSecurityThunderbird.pdf

Quoting from the PDF: "Mozilla Thunderbird version 17 is supported."

TB17 was released more than 12 years ago. Also note the spelling of 'PassKey' there. That sounds more like a product name than contemporary passkeys as we know today. Presumably what's described there was an add-on allowing to securely store a private key (the "PassKey") on a kind of smartcard. The whole point was to send and receive S/MIME encrypted messages using a X.509 certificate. This has got nothing to do with today's passkeys.

Also see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792433 for the current state of affairs with Thunderbird passkey support.

Oops.

At least one vendor does it. See, at least as an example: https://www.wwpass.com/pdf/docs/WWPassSecurityThunderbird.pdf

Quoting from the PDF: "Mozilla Thunderbird version 17 is supported."

TB17 was released more than 12 years ago. Also note the spelling of 'PassKey' there. That sounds more like a product name than contemporary passkeys as we know today. Presumably what's described there was an add-on allowing to securely store a private key (the "PassKey") on a kind of smartcard. The whole point was to send and receive S/MIME encrypted messages using a X.509 certificate. This has got nothing to do with today's passkeys.

Also see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1792433 for the current state of affairs with Thunderbird passkey support.

So essentially Thunderbird does not support passkey authentications. If you use it on an email provider, i.e., Gmail,, you can't use Thunderbird to read your mail.