Join efforts on Symfony Mailer and deprecate Mime Mail?

The discussion of what to do about core email has been going on for more than 10 years in 🌱 [META] Adopt the symfony mailer component Needs review . Please read that and contribute there.

Regardless, as long as core retains its legacy mail system, Mime Mail or something like it will always be needed. I have been working for a long time in many issue queues to try to consolidate some of the existing mail modules, especially those based on unsupported and obsolete third-party libraries. Mime Mail is still requires no libraries other than what is in core. When/if Symfony mailer gets put into core, we will still have to go through a transition phase of at least one major core release before the old core mail system is eliminated. At this point, that is now Drupal 12 at the earliest.

I plan to continue adding testing to Mime Mail and fixing bugs, so that this transition can be handled gracefully. But Mime Mail will still be needed to support sites during this transition.

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