Re: Call to undefined function imap_open()

Il 03/09/22 13:30, J.O. Aho ha scritto:
> 
> The official php documentation mentions these in the build instructions, 
> but talking about which features you need, you need to give different 
> build options, each of those build options are generally made into a php 
> extending package in different Linux distributions.
> 
> The Unix-philosophy has an element of having only the bar minimum 
> installed that makes it possible to do what you need to do, so you want 
> to connect to a postgresql database, then you don't need all the stuff 
> to connect to mysql nor mssql databases.
> 
> This also has a security benefit, the attack vector becomes smaller the 
> less extensions you have  installed, as you know from time to time there 
> are vulnerabilities found and say there would be a xml related 
> vulnerability in php version you are using, but if you don't have the 
> xml support built in nor an xml extension, then you not affected by that 
> vulnerability, but if you have xml support then you are vulnerable.
> 
> See the positive thing, all you need to do is use apt to install the 
> extensions, while those with microsoft windows has to search on the net 
> to find the extension built for the same version of php as you are using 
> and you won't be sure if the one you find has a backdoor built into it 
> or not.
> 
> 
>> How did you come to this conclusion?
> 
> Been around Linux for a long time and even been building packages once i 
> the time.

thanks from info