The user and more importantly the password used when
authenticating SMTP connections MUST be encoded in utf-8, and
'base64-encode-string' requires unibyte strings, so call
'encode-coding-string' on them before base64 encoding them in
case they are multibyte strings.
This applies to the CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, and PLAIN auth methods.
XOAUTH2 access tokens are specified to contain only characters
in the range #x20-#x7E (SPC through ~), so utf-8 encoding is not
necessary.
See RFC 4616 and RFC 4954 (or their later updates).
* lisp/mail/smtpmail.el (smtpmail-try-auth-method): Encode user
and password using utf-8 before base64 encoding.
(Bug#75628)
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