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

[Luis Felipe Marzagao]

Em 05-08-2013 03:19, Michael M Slusarz escreveu:
> 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/).
>


I'm willing to help funding this. I can contribute with $300 USD. I 
think the bountysource idea is good.

Luis Felipe


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