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

[Simon B]

On 5 Aug 2013 09:18, "azurIt" <azurit at pobox.sk> wrote:
>
> >>>> 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.
>
>
> I can contribute about $100 USD. Michael, go and create a bounty at
bountysource, i'm sure more people will join and help.

Cash isn't what it once was, but I'm in for $100 now.

Will you be able to support Google 2-factor auth in a later version? :)

Simon