Deprecation on localhost/mail.php due to php.net/function.hexdec on PHP 7.4

[masiorama]

ISSUE TYPE

• Bug Report

I switched to PHP 7.4 the ambient for some of my projects, and visiting devilbox/mail dashboad I notice a lot of warning like this:

Deprecated: Invalid characters passed for attempted conversion, these have been ignored in /var/www/default/include/vendor/Mail/mimeDecode.php on line 838

Checking the php function it is stated that

hexdec() will ignore any non-hexadecimal characters it encounters. As of PHP 7.4.0 supplying any invalid characters is deprecated.

Right now I have not time to investigate a bit more.
Will write down more infos as soon as possible.
Cheers!

[tiktaz]

I'm facing the same problem. Is it possible to add this correction around line 838 of /var/www/default/include/vendor/Mail/mimeDecode.php ? I dunno how to update this file to submit a PR.

if (ctype_xdigit($matches[0])) {
    return chr(hexdec($matches[0));
}

[llaville]

Perharps a better alternative will be to replace outdated PEAR Mail_mimeDecode package, by a new alternative solution.

See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4721410/best-way-to-handle-email-parsing-decoding-in-php

I suggest eXorus answer with his solution https://github.com/php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser

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[cytopia]

@masiorama @tiktaz can you guys let me know how to reproduce it. I'm unable to get this error with PHP 7.4

[masiorama]

Hi @cytopia neither I was able to reproduce the error. Since then (when I opened the issue) I migrated my dev env to WSL2, installing Devilbox inside Ubuntu (on WSL2), and I have the previous env no more. What I can say is that building up the same stack I see no error in the mail section of Devilbox dashboard.

[cytopia]

Alright, I'll give it a few more days to wait for @tiktaz and check if he's still facing this issue and if not I'm gonna close this one.