Hi, apologies for not responding to the "pierslauder" pings, but i don't own that login, or at least have forgotten all about it, and its email address is invalid (or there is another pierslauder out there).

I maintain imaplib2 on sourceforge (as piersrlauder) at https://sourceforge.net/projects/imaplib2/
and that version has just been modified to incorporate the CRAM_MD5_AUTH change from python3.6. It is regularly updated with bug fixes and it also has built-in tests for the IDLE function.

I originally intended for imaplib2 to be incorporated into pythonlib, leaving the original module in place (a la urllib/2). Then people wouldn't be forced into a switch using threads except by choice.

Anyway, happy to help.