CentOS - Mar 2023 - PHP error message when running yum update on CentOS 7

Running yum update on a CentOS 7.9 server today I encountered the following
error:

PHP Warning:? PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imap.so'
(tried: /usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so (/usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory),
/usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so.so (/usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0

How do I handle this error?

Thank you.

On 2023-03-14 2:25 p.m., H wrote:
> Running yum update on a CentOS 7.9 server today I encountered the following
error:
> 
> PHP Warning:? PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'imap.so'
(tried: /usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so (/usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory),
/usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so.so (/usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory)) in Unknown on line 0
> 
> How do I handle this error?
Are you using the system default PHP?

Running 'yum provides "/usr/lib64/php/modules/imap.so"' will
tell you
which package includes that file; looks like it would be part of 
php-imap from EPEL.

You might have an orphaned php.ini file in /etc/php.d but the module was 
uninstalled or incompletely installed at some point?

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Nels Lindquist
<nlindq at maei.ca>