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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: patch for imap bug 77153
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 21.11.2018 at 08:38, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote:

> Den ons. 21. nov. 2018 kl. 06.13 skrev Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>:
>
>> Btw, is imap on the list to deprecate in 7.x + kill in 8.x? It is really
>> not maintained well, both c-client and the ext. Would it be possible to
>> consider it?
> 
> I remember we have spoken about this in the past and it seems that
> everytime it comes up, is the argument that we don't provide a real
> mail alternative. I mean sure there is lots of userland based
> implementations and all, but I still think that PHP should provide
> something out of the box, but I do agree that at one point, the
> security concerns will start to vastly outweight the unmaintained
> library, but its really something that should be discussed for a
> future release.

One particular issue wrt. removing ext/imap is that the mail
testsuite[1] relies on this extension on Windows, so the tests would
have to be rewritten first.

[1]
<https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/php-7.3.0RC5/ext/standard/tests/mail>

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Christoph M. Becker