the way to find out why thunderbird refuses to log into IMAP is, apparently, this:

$ export MOZ_LOG=IMAP:5,timestamp MOZ_LOG_FILE=thunderbirdlog
$ thunderbird

(it didn't like it that the certificate for imaps:// has expired and chose to not surface this fact in any way whatsoever)

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