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Author	vstinner
Recipients	r.david.murray, surprising42, vstinner
Date	2009-08-19.21:29:43
SpamBayes Score	0.00011679605
Marked as misclassified	No
Message-id	<[email protected]>
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IMAP4 protocol uses bytes, not characters. There is no "standard charset", so you have to encode (manually) your login and password as bytes. login method prototype: IMAP4.login(login: bytes, password: bytes) You server may use UTF-8, but another server may use ISO-8859-1 or any other charset. The documentation should explain why the Python library uses bytes and not "simply" characters.

IMAP4 protocol uses bytes, not characters. There is no "standard
charset", so you have to encode (manually) your login and password as
bytes. login method prototype:
  IMAP4.login(login: bytes, password: bytes)

You server may use UTF-8, but another server may use ISO-8859-1 or any
other charset.

The documentation should explain why the Python library uses bytes and
not "simply" characters.

History
Date	User	Action	Args
2009-08-19 21:29:45	vstinner	set	recipients: + vstinner, r.david.murray, surprising42
2009-08-19 21:29:45	vstinner	set	messageid: <[email protected]>
2009-08-19 21:29:43	vstinner	link	issue6734 messages
2009-08-19 21:29:43	vstinner	create