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Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2019 12:45:27 +0100
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] XOAUTH2 support in PHP IMAP
From: nikita.ppv@gmail.com (Nikita Popov)

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On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 7:11 PM FreeScout <info@freescout.net> wrote:

>
> Hi Team!
>
> Could you please take a look at
> https://github.com/google/gmail-oauth2-tools/issues/18
>
> What do you think? Will it be possible to add XOAUTH2 support to PHP
> IMAP extension?
>
> Thanks
>

The IMAP extension is based on a C library that has not been maintained for
the last decade. As such, it is highly unlikely that the IMAP extension
will ever see new features.

In fact, it is quite likely that the extension will be removed from the PHP
distribution for PHP 8, though no decision has been made on this yet. I
would encourage anyone still using the IMAP extension to instead switch to
one of the pure-PHP mailing libraries. I'm not particularly familiar with
mailing libraries, so don't know which of them already support XOAUTH2,
maybe someone else knows?

Regards,
Nikita

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