Help for a possible thunderbird (or perdition??) bug

Recently, I switched from thunderbird 3.05 to 3.1, on linux.

After the switch, I was no more able to download
my e-mail using our pop3s server more than once;
So, I had to re-start thunderbird each time.
I filed this bug report,

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=575915

The problem was acknowledged, and if I understand correctly
(I'm not sure of this, It's better read the bug logs if you are 
interested), it happens because the secure connection
encounters an error after the first authentication and mail download.

I answered some questions, and at the end asked for help
to our sysadm. It turned out that I was not accessing
directly the pop3s server. Rather, I was accessing perdition
1.17.1 (debian lenny). And thunderbird 3.1 works flawlessy accessing
our real pop3s server.
So, it can be a thunderbird a bug, but it occurs only with perdition.

I'm writing you because I've left unanswered the following questions:

 >Can you check with Gmail's POP3 server using perdition 1.17.1 and Tb 3.1?
 > Can you test with newer perdition 1.18 shipped on 27th November 2009 
shortly?

I can't use our real server for these experiments. So, I've built
perdition 1.17.1 and perdition 1.18 on my pc (linux) (where I have 
administrative rights). Both were built

The plan was to fire perdition.pop3s (not as a daemon).
Something like (for "Can you check with Gmail's POP3 server using 
perdition 1.17.1 and Tb 3.1"):

./perdition.pop3s -s pop.googlemail.com -d --no_daemon 
--ssl_ca_accept_self_signed -C

But I've surely done something wrong, perhaps in the generation of the 
self-signed certificates: perdition 1.18 quits immediately, and 
perdition 1.17.1 quits as soon as I try to download my e-mail from 
thunderbird. I've not modified the installed configuration files, nor 
added any database.

So, could you please confirm me that what I'm trying to do has some 
sense? And if this is the case, could you write for me an idiot-proof
step-by-step instruction list, including the generation of the 
certificate, so that I can help the thunderbird guy?
(even better would be to help him directly, but I can take care of it if 
you don't have time).

I understand that this is asking a lot, but at this point I'm struck 
with something way too different from what I know, and, having  already 
spent too much time with this issue, I don't currently have enough time
to understand what I should do.

Thanks a lot,

Marco
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