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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2019 12:22:41 -0500
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To: Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: patch for imap bug 77153
From: bishop@php.net (Bishop Bettini)

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On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 11:45 AM Jan Schneider <jan@horde.org> wrote:

>
> Zitat von Bishop Bettini <bishop@php.net>:
>
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 7:27 PM Stanislav Malyshev <smalyshev@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Hi!
> >>
> >> > Anyhow, this is water under the bridge now, and I think we should
> issue
> >> > a call for maintainership[4] for ext/imap as soon as possible, since
> >> > this is not the only issue[5] of this unmaintained[6] extension.
> >>
> >> Pierre is listed as maintainer. But given that he is for deprecating it,
> >> I guess we try to find somebody who is willing to revive it (not likely)
> >> and failing that (likely) go the deprecation route probably... Given how
> >> many references to it I see on github though, it's not the best outcome.
> >>
> >
> > I'd like to take this one, too.
> >
> > RoundCube may roll its own, but I know the popular Horde IMP uses this
> > extensively.
>
> Horde isn't using ext/imap since ages, but has developed a PHP-only
> IMAP library long ago, that's being used by many other OSS projects too.
>

I appreciate the clarification, Jan, thanks. I must have been reading the
h3 docs, instead of current. o.O

The library is indeed very nice, https://github.com/horde/Imap_Client/
Looks like it's faster than native ext/imap, too
https://dev.horde.org/imap_client/
One recent SO answer comparing ext/imap and Horde Imap_Client:
https://stackoverflow.com/q/6659409/2908724

Given the high quality userland option(s) out there, it seems a waste of
effort to revitalize the extension with a fresh imap implementation. We
should be fixing the bugs though, and I'll focus on that. For now let's
just call it actively maintained, but feature frozen?

bishop

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