Re: ext/imap -> bye bye in PHP 5.6
| From: | Ralf Lang | Date: | Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:45:36 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: ext/imap -> bye bye in PHP 5.6 | ||
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On 31.01.2014 10:10, Hannes Magnusson wrote:
> Hi
>
> There was a thread in April 2012 about removing ext/imap since
> c-client is dead and has been for a while.
> It has been longer while now, and distros like RHEL-7 have dropped the
> extension completely.
> We can't pretend anymore that ext/imap is a _core_ functionality of
> PHP that everyone writing webapps needs. It needs to be removed :)
I agree to that.
Horde has been shipping a mature PHP implementation of IMAP for many
years and others like roundcube also have theirs. No need to keep a
broken C implementation.
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