# What replaces Zend\_Mail\_Storage\_Maildir, or what do I install@
**URL:** https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/what-replaces-zend-mail-storage-maildir-or-what-do-i-install/2621
**Category:** Migration
**Tags:** laminas-mail
**Created:** [November 27, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/what-replaces-zend-mail-storage-maildir-or-what-do-i-install/2621 "2021-11-27T18:51:26Z")
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### Author:  [@chrisisbd](https://discourse.laminas.dev/u/chrisisbd)
#### Post date: [November 27, 2021, 6:51pm UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/what-replaces-zend-mail-storage-maildir-or-what-do-i-install/2621/1 "2021-11-27T18:51:26Z")
I have some rather old PHP code (in a DokuWiki plugin) that I wrote to read E-Mail messages.
It uses Zend\_Mail\_Storage\_Maildir.
What do I need to install to provide this, or similar, functions? It’s on my own server with root access etc. I _think_ I originally installed a package called zendframework to provide this, obviously I don’t (didn’t) need all of this but that was the easiest way to do it. If I can just install the PHP mail handling code that would be brilliant.
This is on an Ubuntu 21.10 system with Apache2 as the web server.
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### Author:  [@froschdesign](https://discourse.laminas.dev/u/froschdesign)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2021, 9:12am UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/what-replaces-zend-mail-storage-maildir-or-what-do-i-install/2621/2 "2021-11-28T09:12:40Z")
The same storage type is also available in laminas-mail:
[https://docs.laminas.dev/laminas-mail/read/#using-local-storage-via-mbox-and-maildir](https://docs.laminas.dev/laminas-mail/read/#using-local-storage-via-mbox-and-maildir)
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### Author:  [@chrisisbd](https://discourse.laminas.dev/u/chrisisbd)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2021, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/what-replaces-zend-mail-storage-maildir-or-what-do-i-install/2621/3 "2021-11-28T09:46:21Z")
OK, thank you.
So how do I get laminas-mail installed on my system?
The Ubuntu repositories (which are my preferred place from which to install) offers php-zend-stdlib, php-zend-eventmanager and php-zend-code from the Laminas project but it’s not clear if any of these includes laminas-mail, however I suspect they don’t.
I don’t really want the whole of Laminas if I can avoid it.
If I installed just laminas-mail from github will it be missing dependencies?
Should I install composer (which is available from the Ubuntu repositories) and use that to install laminas-mail? This sounds relatively safe and easy.
Sorry for so many questions.
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### Author:  [@froschdesign](https://discourse.laminas.dev/u/froschdesign)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2021, 10:43am UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/what-replaces-zend-mail-storage-maildir-or-what-do-i-install/2621/4 "2021-11-28T10:43:33Z")
> [@chrisisbd](#):
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> Should I install composer (which is available from the Ubuntu repositories) and use that to install laminas-mail? This sounds relatively safe and easy.
This is the way you have to go.
But installation alone will not work, you must rewrite your application / script. laminas-mail may contain the same type of storage, but this does not mean that your old code will work.
There are years between version 1 of Zend Framework and the Laminas components. These are two different systems.
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### Author:  [@chrisisbd](https://discourse.laminas.dev/u/chrisisbd)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2021, 11:08am UTC](https://discourse.laminas.dev/t/what-replaces-zend-mail-storage-maildir-or-what-do-i-install/2621/5 "2021-11-28T11:08:17Z")
Yes, OK, I realise it’s not a “drop in replacement” but it looks quite
well documented so I think I can find my way from there.
Thanks!