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Update imaplib to support RFC3501 #68147

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@soltysh
BPO 23959
Nosy @warsaw, @bitdancer, @soltysh

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title = 'Update imaplib to support RFC3501'
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  1. soltysh commented on Apr 14, 2015

    @soltysh
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    Current imaplib implementation follows obsoleted RFC2060. It should be updated to follow RFC3501.

  2. soltysh commented on Apr 14, 2015

    @soltysh
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    I'm volunteering myself to work on this as a follow-up work to http://bugs.python.org/issue22137.

  3. transferred this issue fromon Apr 10, 2022
  4. added
    stdlibStandard Library Python modules in the Lib/ directory
    on Nov 23, 2023
  5. serhiy-storchaka commented on Jul 5, 2026

    @serhiy-storchaka
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    imaplib follows RFC 3501 for a long time: all commands are supported and tested, and since gh-40038 argument quoting follows the RFC 3501 grammar. The remaining references to RFC 2060 were updated in GH-153126.

    IMAP4rev2 (RFC 9051) is tracked in gh-122953.

  6. added 4 commits that reference this issue on Jul 5, 2026
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