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PHP IMAP extension deprecated #44
Description
Steps to reproduce
- Search for php7-imap in the repo's of current distro's like openSUSE Tumbleweed
- Lookup php-imap extension status in the formal PHP extension list
Expected behaviour
The native PHP IMAP extension appears to be deprecated.
Actual behaviour
The php-imap extension appears to have been abandoned by its maintainers and distro's like openSUSE no longer ship it.
https://wiki.php.net/todo/extensions#imap
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1089061#c18
Roundcube and other mail apps appear to have moved to a custom PHP IMAP protocol implementation using the generic sockets extension.
Would it be possible to consider replacing this unmaintained dependency to a similar solution?
https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/blob/82974289b98d2d00251e55f1719c4522598d7ef5/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap_generic.php
Affected Authentication backend
IMAP
Server configuration
Operating system:
Several linux distro's i.e. openSUSE
PHP version:
7
Activity
[Dovecot] Revert to TLS1+
violoncelloCH commentedon Mar 6, 2019
thank you for this report @hcderaad !
I get the point of your report and indeed, we could probably use roundcube's or a similar implementation to achieve this.
However for me personally, this is currently out of scope. (I'm just maintaining this app in my spare time.) But if anyone is up for an implementation, a PR is always very welcome!
cc @nextcloud/user_external
hcderaad commentedon Mar 21, 2019
Apologies for the delayed response, many thanks for picking this up!
wrossmann commentedon Jun 11, 2020
The IMAP extension is not deprecated, it's a core extension. I invite you to check the PHP docs or actually talk to a PHP internals person for confirmation, but as far as I am aware no one has even talked about deprecating it from PHP proper.
I cannot comment on what the OpenSUSE maintainers have been smoking that has caused them to stop packaging/shipping this extension.
violoncelloCH commentedon Jun 11, 2020
well we're using curl for the authentication request in the mean time (#122) which seems to work well and is supported...
and sadly I wouldn't know any "php internal" or how to contact them for such information anyway...
wrossmann commentedon Jul 31, 2020
@violoncelloCH https://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php
With a cursory search of the internals list archive there's a recent discussion about possibly deprecating ext/imap in the future, but with a long "sunset" period to allow for suitable replacements to actually exist in a format that's usable by devs.
https://marc.info/?l=php-internals&m=159163292222287&w=2
violoncelloCH commentedon Aug 3, 2020
thanks @wrossmann , that's nice to know... however I see it very unrealistic to migrate back, now that we migrated first to roundcube and then to curl