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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 16:43:52 +0100
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To: Hannes Magnusson <hannes.magnusson@gmail.com>, julien pauli <jpauli@php.net>
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Subject: Re: ext/imap -> bye bye in PHP 5.6
From: tyra3l@gmail.com (Ferenc Kovacs)

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On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Hannes Magnusson <
hannes.magnusson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> There was a thread in April 2012 about removing ext/imap since
> c-client is dead and has been for a while.
> It has been longer while now, and distros like RHEL-7 have dropped the
> extension completely.
>
> We can't pretend anymore that ext/imap is a _core_ functionality of
> PHP that everyone writing webapps needs. It needs to be removed :)
>
>
> Ferenc, David; What exactly is the procedure for doing that,
> considering 5.6 has shipped its first alpha?
> Remove it from master only, or killing it from 5.6 OK?
>
> -Hannes
>

Hi Hannes,

I would be fine with removing it from core.
Personally I would move it to pecl and mark it unmaintained, which would
make it a bit easier other future maintainers to take it over if they want.
As others mentioned we should also start directing the users towards other
alternatives (zeta Mail seemed rather promising the last time I checked,
but the testsuite desperatelly needs some love, because a bunch of tests
were failing, mostly because the remote mailboxes used for the tests were
no longer available).
Let's see what Julien thinks.

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Ferenc Kov=C3=A1cs
@Tyr43l - http://tyrael.hu

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