my $encodedString = "AUTH PLAIN "
                    . encode_base64(join("\0", $auth->{user}, $auth->{user}, $auth->{password}), $CRLF);
                    my  $decodedString = decode_base64($encodedString);
					warn("decodedString '$decodedString'");

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