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

From: Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 03:11:21 +0000
Subject: Req #78572 [Com]: Discontinue use of c-client library
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 ID:                 78572
 Comment by:         bishop@php.net
 Reported by:        bishop@php.net
 Summary:            Discontinue use of c-client library
 Status:             Open
 Type:               Feature/Change Request
 Package:            IMAP related
 PHP Version:        Irrelevant
 Block user comment: N
 Private report:     N

 New Comment:

See also https://externals.io/message/103464


Previous Comments:
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[2019-09-20 03:07:58] bishop@php.net

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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