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

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting azurIt <azurit at pobox.sk>:

>> 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?

As mentioned previously, this is a multi-week project, at least from a  
project planning perspective.  And that doesn't include the bug-fixing  
that is likely to be significant, given the fact that this is 1) an  
invasive UI change and 2) is involving connections to remote servers.

That being said - this is something I personally would *really* like  
to see in IMP also, so I am willing to provide a discount and  
prioritize this over some other activities I am currently involved in.

I would implement for $3,000 USD.  Conditions:

* It will be implemented as described in:  
http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/8077 (i.e. this is *not* a fetchmail  
capability - no messages will be transferred to the "master" account.   
Instead, this is a way to access multiple mailboxes at the same time  
while leaving the messages in those accounts).

* This won't be available for IMP 6.1.  This will go into 6.2, at the  
earliest.

This might be an interesting use-case for using a service like  
Bountysource (https://www.bountysource.com/).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]