Hi all!
Currently our mail related tests (in ext/standard/tests/mail/ and maybe
other locations) are split for *nix and Windows (if there are even
Windows versions). The basic difference is that the *nix variants set
the INI directive sendmail_path to just write the email to disk (some
variations exist), while the Windows tests use ext/imap. The latter
tests are way more verbose, and such duplicated tests are generally a
pain point.
Therefore I suggest to unify these tests. Basically, setting the
sendmail_path works for Windows as well; we only have to offer a binary
that writes the mail to disk (tee and non-binaries don't appear to
work). A rudimentary implementation is trivial[1].
The then missing part would be to actually make the ini setting
portable, which might be done by introducing a new placeholder for PHPT
INI sections, similar to {TMP} and {PWD}. The new placeholder would
likely have to accept a filename, so it could be something like
{MAIL:<filename>}.
Any ideas and suggestions for improvements, or potential caveats welcome!
[1] https://gist.github.com/cmb69/40c8c3f40795d9032aec49d13e452fa5
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Christoph M. Becker