Req #78572 [NEW]: Discontinue use of c-client library

From: Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 03:07:58 +0000
Subject: Req #78572 [NEW]: Discontinue use of c-client library
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From:             bishop
Operating system: 
PHP version:      Irrelevant
Package:          IMAP related
Bug Type:         Feature/Change Request
Bug description:Discontinue use of c-client library

Description:
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The IMAP extension does not perform as well as pure user-land
implementations of the IMAP protocol. This is due, in largest part, to
the c-client library on which this extension's based: c-client is many
years unmaintained and there are numerous bugs related to it.

Scope of this ticket is to formulate a remediation plan, where we can
either replace c-client with a similar, maintained library or implement
the IMAP protocol ourselves natively. This is essentially a reboot of
the IMAP extension and would require, I believe, extensive work to
accomplish.

An alternative is to sunset the extension, encouraging consumers to
switch to a pure PHP extension.


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Fix committed:                    https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=fixed
Fixed in release:                 https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:                   https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:            https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=needscript
Try newer version:                https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:              https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=support
Expected behavior:                https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=notwrong
Not enough info:                  https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:                  https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:                 https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=globals
PHP version support discontinued: https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=phptooold
Daylight Savings:                 https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=dst
IIS Stability:                    https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:                  https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:       https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=float
No Zend Extensions:               https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:        https://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=78572&r=mysqlcfg

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