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

[simon at simonandkate.net]

Simon Wilson
M: 0400 12 11 16

On 05/08/2013, at 5:18 PM, 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.
> 
> azur
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Commit $100 from me, and agree re bountysource or similar, or can contribute direct to Horde.

Simon.