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This is officially driving me nuts! I'm trying to work with a laravel package for imap functions and I've installed everything there but I get a missing class error for imap_open

I know this means the imap module is not installed, or is problematic, at the php level.

I've edited my php.ini file to have extension=imap and now when I run any php command from the terminal CLI I get PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imap' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap, 9): image not found), /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap.so (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap.so, 9): image not found)) in Unknown on line 0

When I navigate to user/local/lib/php I have a 7.4 folder, in that I have a conf.d folder, pear.conf file, php-fpm.consf file, php-fpm.d folder, and php.ini file

What do I need to do at this point?

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  • Have You tried this? stackoverflow.com/questions/51433648/…
    – num8er
    Commented Mar 8, 2020 at 20:43
  • @num8er yes I did, and I was able to move the imap.so file into the local folders and uncomment the file in the php.ini file. Still while in the directory for this project typing php -m doesn't show imap
    – Geoff_S
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 17:27
  • seems php -v will show that it’s different than 7.4
    – num8er
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 17:40
  • @num8er ok if I run php-v it shows version 7.3.9 but before that I get a startup error loading dynamic library 'imap' with code signature in (/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap.so) not valid for use in process: mapped file has no cdhash, completely unsigned? Code has to be at least ad-hoc signed.)) in Unknown on line 0
    – Geoff_S
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 22:45
  • imap.so which You're talking about I don't know for which version of php is. but I recommend to remove it from pecl folder (and remove from configs if it's appearing again). then simply do steps in my answer below, I've done it locally and it works.
    – num8er
    Commented Mar 9, 2020 at 23:19

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Reset to default
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I've upgraded my 7.3 to 7.4 and added imap extension which does not exist in pecl.

So steps are:

1) brew update

2) brew upgrade php

3) sudo rm /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap.so

4) brew tap kabel/php-ext

5) brew install php-imap

6) php -m | grep imap

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  • OK I went through these steps exactly and the. last step gave me PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imap' (tried: /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap, 0x0009): dlopen(): file not found: /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap), /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap.so (dlopen(/usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap.so, 0x0009): dlopen(): file not found: /usr/local/lib/php/pecl/20190902/imap.so))
    – Geoff_S
    Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 16:22
  • then when I immediately run php-v in the command line I get 7.3.9
    – Geoff_S
    Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 16:22
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    I did the sudo rm step in your answer, but when I run php --ini in the command line it still shows the config file it's using is at /etc/php.ini
    – Geoff_S
    Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 16:25
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    OK I removed extension=imap from that file and now php -m | grep imap returns nothing
    – Geoff_S
    Commented Mar 10, 2020 at 16:27
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    Thank you. I'm using shivammatur on my big sur. tapping the shivammatur extensions didn't solve my problem but your answer did
    – Dika
    Commented May 27, 2021 at 2:14
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It is a time to update the package. We need [email protected] (actually its an alias to php-imap that loads php-8.0.0 source code.

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I've tries all of the things. But, nothing works. Finally, I got Shivammathur git brew extensions -

Homebrew tap for PHP extensions - https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-extensions

Process to install imap extension for php 7.4 -

Get PHP 7.4 & Extensions:

brew tap shivammathur/php
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew link --force --overwrite [email protected]
brew tap shivammathur/extensions

Get Any extension now, like imap

brew install [email protected]

After then, I can perfectly enabled php-imap on my machine. Hope, it will help somebody.

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I would check to see if Step 1 is actually required, otherwise this worked for me on Mac OS 10 Catalina 10.15.1

brew install [email protected] (not sure if required)
brew tap shivammathur/php
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew services restart php
brew install [email protected]
brew tap shivammathur/extensions\n
brew install [email protected]\n
php -m | grep imap

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