Re: [RFC] imap-send: escape backslash in password

> That is fine by me. AFAIK, we already build the curl support by default
> when a sufficiently-advanced version of curl is available. So if there
> were feature-parity problems hopefully somebody would have reported it.
>
> I think the deprecation here can be relatively fast because we're not
> actually dropping support for any feature. We're just requiring that
> they install curl to get the same functionality (which might be
> inconvenient, but it's a heck of a lot less inconvenient than "there's
> no way to do what you want anymore").