[kmail2] [Bug 314945] New: No option to choose PREAUTH authentication for IMAP

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=314945

            Bug ID: 314945
           Summary: No option to choose PREAUTH authentication for IMAP
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: kmail2
           Version: 4.9.5
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
               URL: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52572
                OS: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
          Reporter: rjwysocki at gmail.com

As described at the URL, there's no option to specify PREAUTH authentication
for IMAP (or at least I couldn't find it), which in particular makes it
impossible for to use kmail with SSH public key authentication (where the IMAP
session is authenticated and opened in advance).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Say dovecot.server.org is your IMAP server that supports SSH public key
authentication.
2. 'ssh dovecot.server.org "exec /usr/lib/dovecot/imap"' opens an IMAP session
on that server.
3. There's no option for kmail to do 2 and use that session going forward.
Actual Results:  
As described in "Steps to Reproduce".

Expected Results:  
kmail should be able to use SSH for key-based authentication and session setup.

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