Use AUTHENTICATE PLAIN instead of LOGIN #1725
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Makes imaplib use more modern AUTHENTICATE verb
rather than LOGIN.
The immediate benefit is that now the credentials
can be non-ASCII.
In the future, it may be used to add other
authentication methods, such as OAuth.
References:
Note: This patch was originally created in 2021 against RadicaleIMAP, which has since been integrated to Radicale. Here is the original discussion: Unrud/RadicaleIMAP#7