cclient, panda-cclient, and php71-imap (and others?)

[Thierry Thomas]

Le lun. 22 avr. 19 à 20:05:07 +0200, Adam Bernstein <adam at electricembers.coop>
 écrivait :

> It seems to me that 'mail/cclient' should be marked as broken with 
> current OpenSSL 
> (https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=226621), and possibly 
> as unmaintained, and that all other ports that use it (the one that 
> concerns us currently is 'php71-imap') should switch to using the fork 
> 'panda-cclient' instead. That fork has this bug fixed already, and 
> php71-imap offers panda-cclient as a build option but not as the default.

Indeed, I've been using Panda for a long time, and it is a safer
replacement for cclient and uw-imap, and we could set it by default.
(adding PHP maintainer to Cc:)

> Or am I missing something? If not, is there anything we can do to 
> facilitate?

However, note that Panda is not bulletproof, and mostly unmaintained
too. Someone tries to revive this project and help is wanted: see
https://github.com/nkhorman/panda-imap/issues

Regards,
-- 
Th. Thomas.
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