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

[azurIt]

>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)


First we need to know how much money is needed. Michael?


azur