[imp] Interest in Sponsoring "fetchmail capability" for Horde 5/Imp 6

[Simon B]

On 1 Aug 2013 21:13, "Andy Dorman" <adorman at ironicdesign.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/01/2013 12:56 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote:
>>
>> Quoting Andy Dorman <adorman at ironicdesign.com>:
>>
>>> So, I have a question for all you awesome Horde developers...do any of
>>> you have the time to work on updating the old fetchmail feature to
>>> work with the latest horde/imp, and do you have any sort of estimate
>>> as to the cost?
>>
>>
>> The old fetchmail functionality is not coming back. It simply doesn't
>> work coherently/properly in a PHP environment with limited process times
>> (and is non-threaded).
>>
>> The replacement MUST be the ability to access multiple accounts within a
>> single session. But this is not a trivial change, and thus far nobody
>> has ponied up the funding needed to accomplish this (this would probably
>> require week(s) of work, as opposed to hours).
>>
>> michael
>>
> Michael, thanks for the info.
>
> I should have stated my query differently.  We need the capability to
access multiple accounts.  It just happens that is what fetchmail did, so I
used it as a shorthand description of the Use Case..
>
> FWIW, I have used fetchmail for about 6 years, once or twice a day, and
never had any trouble with it (even used it last night on our production
system to fetch over 300 emails from gmail).  But I am a sample size of 1
and I honestly do not know who else in our user base uses it.
>
> So, weeks of work.  I wonder if anyone else on the list needs the ability
to access email in multiple accounts through the web interface?  Perhaps
several companies could get together and pledge enough?
>
> Is there anyone else on this list that would be willing to help fund
development of a "fetchmail capability" ? (ie, same end result as the old
fetchmail, only done differently)

I would potentially be interested, but my user base is more exclusive than
most.  And I need a dollar figure to progress.

Simon