Abolish Mail plugin in favor of calling AOSKit::retrieveHeadersForDSID directly

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
macos, swift
Domain
desktop, reverse-engineering

Research direction

Start by reading the AOSKit entry points retrieveHeadersForDSID and retrieveOTPHeadersForDSID, then review the linked AppleIDAuth XCode project and its Catalina testing context. Replace the Mail plugin setup with direct retrieval of anisette data, and verify that the result matches the data currently obtained through the plugin.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Not really a problem, but I found an easier way of retrieving anisette data that does not require installing a Mail plugin.

Describe the solution you'd like
AOSKit has a function retrieveHeadersForDSID that can readily retrieve the required anisette data, without needing the entitlements of the Mail program. This is not my work, I just stumbled upon this git repo: https://github.com/vtky/AppleIDAuth (all credits go to @vtky), tested it on Catalina and it works fine with my script: https://github.com/biemster/FindMy

Describe alternatives you've considered
Just do nothing, the Mail plugin works fine too. This would only remove an extra step in setting up the whole thing.

Additional context
According to Victor who did all the hard work here, the function retrieveOTPHeadersForDSID requires a single parameter. Providing "-2" as parameter retrieves the same anisette data as the Mail plugin in my tests. The original repo linked above provides a lot of additional info and a compiling XCode project with which I did my tests, and is definitely worth a read (not very long).

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