Comment 13 for bug 1421923

Wow, Alberto! I didn't expect anyone to have a look at the code that fast!

I agree that OAuth authentication for Gmail in connection with using the Gmail accounts plugin would be great. Having a quick look at the Gmail docs, I also think that our IMAP library should be compatible with it. However, as we already have working Gmail notifications using OAuth in the images (although not open to third-party developers at the moment), I'd like to postpone this after we have released the normal password authentication IMAP notifications into the wild as they are supported by basically all IMAP servers.

Furthermore, thank you for the link to the SASL plugin. As that part is being dealt with by our IMAP library though, I don't think it will be too useful here.

The data files you found are indeed from libraries for character encoding. I noticed a few days ago that we can import some of the libraries via Debian packages that are already in the Ubuntu archives so that should reduce that part of the code.

Thanks again! :)