PHP hangs after installing imap

[wrabit]

After brew install kabel/php-ext/php@7.4-imap any php command hangs for several seconds before the command is executed.

Commenting out the ini and the hang disappears

[imap]
;extension=/usr/local/opt/php-imap/lib/php/20190902/imap.so

Any suggestions?

[kabel]

I believe this is a known issue with the imap extension. You can try to see help from the php team upstream. This isn't a package issue, so I'm going to close.

This is one of the main reasons why the extension is not included with the homebrew-core. Something in the extension's code is causing a DNS request on the machine's hostname. The hang is likely from a delay in the DNS server resolving the address. I've seen people work around it by adding their machine's name to /etc/hosts.

[wrabit]

Thanks for the explanation