[Tickets #8077] Re: Allow multiple accounts in IMP

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8077
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  Ticket             | 8077
  Updated By         | Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org>
  Summary            | Allow multiple accounts in IMP
  Queue              | IMP
  Version            | Git master
  Type               | Enhancement
  State              | Accepted
  Priority           | 2. Medium
-Milestone          | 5.1
+Milestone          | 6+
  Patch              |
  Owners             | Michael Slusarz
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Michael Slusarz <slusarz at horde.org> (2012-03-28 00:28) wrote:

> This feature is discussed (in a positive, it just works, sense) a  
> lot online because it has been a feature for a long time with  
> IMP3/4. It was quite hard to to find this page and properly confirm  
> that it is now depreciated in IMP5. I have added a (rather terse,  
> sorry, I was suffering a sense of humour failure) note to the Wiki  
> page about this.

No, this ticket does not implement the previous functionality.  The  
old code was nothing more than a web interface to a (not very  
optimized) PHP port of fetchmail.  Which wasn't all that useful for  
anyone with more than a few hundred messages, since PHP would time-out  
or memory fail long before you could synchronize an account.

This ticket is instead a request to add foreign accounts to appear  
natively in the UI.  Which would allow access of these accounts  
without expensive overhead (and allow the synchronization of mail  
actions).

> From the search results seen before I found this page I imagine that  
> hosting providers (plesk/cpanel based) will have a strong incentive  
> to get this restored since they have been offering IMP as a mail  
> aggregator service to their customers. They may well feel that this  
> issue is a blocker for IMP5 adoption.

I would love to see this request also.  But the people that currently  
pay me to work on IMP do not have this as a priority.  Unfortunately,  
that is the reality of the situation, especially for something as  
resource intensive as this request.