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

[azurIt]

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


I can contribute about $100 USD. Michael, go and create a bounty at bountysource, i'm sure more people will join and help.

azur