laminas/laminas-mail has been abandoned

[marclaporte]

https://github.com/laminas/laminas-mail/blob/2.26.x/README.md
https://github.com/laminas/technical-steering-committee/blob/main/meetings/minutes/2023-12-04-TSC-Minutes.md

[roelvanduijnhoven]

Mm that sucks @marclaporte. Thanks for bringing that my attention. Weird that there is no rationale to be found about the move.

This package builds quite heavily on top of that package. So I don't think this repo will / should diverge onto something else.

I guess we can just keep this package around for now. And keep depending on the abandon ware. Although maybe we should make note of that on the repo page?

[marclaporte]

Weird that there is no rationale to be found about the move.

@weierophinney is the Matthew referenced here:
"Matthew indicated that he feels without anybody who can commit to maintaining it, and nobody on the team with security experience in this particular area, it may actually be a disservice to end users to commit to security patches."
Source: https://github.com/laminas/technical-steering-committee/blob/main/meetings/minutes/2023-12-04-TSC-Minutes.md

[marclaporte]

For analysis:

Other users of laminas-mail:
https://packagist.org/packages/laminas/laminas-mail/dependents?order_by=downloads

Other users of slm/mail:
https://packagist.org/packages/slm/mail/dependents?order_by=downloads

Also, the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project uses:
https://gitlab.com/tikiwiki/tiki/-/blob/24.x/vendor_bundled/composer.json#L139
https://doc.tiki.org/Transactional-Email-Providers

[marclaporte]

Although maybe we should make note of that on the repo page?

I agree. And perhaps suggest alternatives. Unless someone steps up for laminas-mail, no one should start new projects which depend on it (direclty or indirectly)

[roelvanduijnhoven]

@marclaporte I can put up a warning at the top of the README about the state of laminas/mail. No problem.

But I'm not aware what alternatives to suggest. Do you hve some recommendations I can put in there?

[marclaporte]

Option 1: https://github.com/omnimail/omnimail

Option 2: symfony/mailer using a 3rd Party Transport
https://symfony.com/doc/current/mailer.html#using-a-3rd-party-transport