[issue15014] smtplib: add support for arbitrary auth methods

[R. David Murray]

R. David Murray added the comment:

There is a lot of repeated code in those methods, which becomes a maintenance burden.  That is one reason the imaplib authobj approach seems interesting to me.  Also, going the authobj route would mean imaplib and smptlib had a consistent interface for this, and consistency is good where it makes sense.

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versions: +Python 3.5 -Python 3.3

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