Re: Proposal to unbundle imap/pspell/oci8 extensions for PHP 8.4

> The ext/imap extension isn't going to disappear, it is not going be > unbundled as we can not guarantee the underlaying library is > maintained. Not only is it no longer maintained, the original > purveyors have removed any mention of it from their website. > > For most people, there will be little change here. On Debian for > example, "php-<packagename>" is used for both bundled and PECL'ed > extensions. OK then :) > Using Curl seems like a bad alternative, as it would likely have to > open a connection for each action that you do. No, curl is clever and keeping the connection open as long as you don't use curl_close. This is clearly visible when enabling verbose mode: … < A004 OK Fetch completed (0.001 + 0.000 secs). * Connection #0 to host localhost left intact * Found bundle for host localhost: 0x55d0b5c60f50 [serially] * Re-using existing connection! (#0) with host localhost * Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 143 (#0) > A005 FETCH 1:* FULL … In my experience, using curl is much faster than using ext/imap :)