Re: Re: patch for imap bug 77153

On 21.11.2018 at 08:38, Kalle Sommer Nielsen wrote: > Den ons. 21. nov. 2018 kl. 06.13 skrev Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com>: > >> Btw, is imap on the list to deprecate in 7.x + kill in 8.x? It is really >> not maintained well, both c-client and the ext. Would it be possible to >> consider it? > > I remember we have spoken about this in the past and it seems that > everytime it comes up, is the argument that we don't provide a real > mail alternative. I mean sure there is lots of userland based > implementations and all, but I still think that PHP should provide > something out of the box, but I do agree that at one point, the > security concerns will start to vastly outweight the unmaintained > library, but its really something that should be discussed for a > future release. One particular issue wrt. removing ext/imap is that the mail testsuite[1] relies on this extension on Windows, so the tests would have to be rewritten first. [1] <https://github.com/php/php-src/tree/php-7.3.0RC5/ext/standard/tests/mail> -- Christoph M. Becker