postie not working / critical error on easywp.com

I noticed that postie (latest version) stopped working about a week ago. when digging in to the matter i found that postie was using php_uname() which gave the following error:

Une erreur de type E_ERROR a été causée dans la ligne 273 du fichier /var/www/wptbox/wpcontent/plugins/postie/postie.class.php. Message d’erreur?: Uncaught Error: Call to undefined function php_uname() in /var/www/wptbox/wpcontent/plugins/postie/postie.class.php:273

When consulting my hosting service i was told that php_uname was blocked for reasons of security since 2021. I also found out that my site was ‘upgraded’ to php 8 somewhere in the last week or so.

anyway i for now replace all the calls to php_uname() (in the files postie.class.php, lib/fCore.php and lib/pSocketConnection.php) with a call to a new function that returns more or less the same info as php_uname() which is not ideal as it will be overwritten with the next update… For the moment everything works now but a more permanent way of resolving would be very appreciated.

BTW: postie is a godsend so keep up with the good work!

hnzz