[imp] Fundraising: IMP Multiple Accounts Feature

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting azurIt <azurit at pobox.sk>:

>> Predmet: Re: [imp] Fundraising: IMP Multiple Accounts Feature
>>
>> Quoting Luis Felipe Marzagao <lfbm.andamentos at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Em 05-08-2013 16:40, Michael M Slusarz escreveu:
>>>
>>>> The fundraiser page can be found here:
>>>>
>>>> http://tilt.tc/Evs2
>>
>> Just wanted to give a quick update to the list.
>>
>> As of Thursday afternoon, we are now ~$500 short of funding this
>> feature.  A giant thank you to the ten contributors so far.
>>
>> I'm pleased to announce that SAPO (http://www.sapo.pt/), a long-time
>> supporter of both Horde and open-source software in general, has
>> provided $1,000 towards the goal.  (Due to details that will interest
>> nobody, this funding appears to be coming from me.  I wish it was as
>> easy as pledging money to yourselves :) )
>>
>> So this means we are 80+% of the way to the goal.  If you were on the
>> fence about contributing - I hope this will provide the necessary
>> incentive in order to allow this useful feature to become a part of IMP.
>>
>>> I think it needs to be constantly advertised in order to succeed.
>>> I've been sharing it on twitter, facebook etc. and I ask all of you
>>> to share as well, even if you are not willing to contribute with
>>> money.
>>
>> Agreed.  Thanks to some of the other Horde dev's, we've advertised via
>> our social media streams.  Considering we only need another $500, even
>> a small amount of advertisement will hopefully be all we need to fund
>> the rest.
>>
>>> I would also suggest it to be announced on the horde list, since I
>>> believe there are some users who subscribe to that list and not to
>>> this one.
>>
>> Good idea, although apologies for the cross-post for those subscribed
>> to multiple lists.
>>
>> horde at lists.horde.org subscribers: you can look at
>> http://lists.horde.org/archives/imp/Week-of-Mon-20130805/055226.html
>> for further details regarding this fundraiser goal.
>>
>>> For those who can contribute, please, help. Maybe this is a great
>>> opportunity to give something in retunr for using good quality
>>> software for years without spending any money.
>>
>> Well... the current campaign really supports me much more than the
>> Horde Project in general :)  Granted - the intellectual property
>> produced as a result of this will be openly available to everyone (via
>> the GPL) so the benefits are community-wide.
>>
>> But this platform does allow me an opportunity to remind everyone that
>> if there are features you would like to see in Horde, that a fantastic
>> way of supporting the project is to fund new features.  Although I
>> can't speak for the other developers, *I* much prefer this approach
>> than the "tip-jar" approach.  The latter rests on our laurels; the
>> former provides a way to make the software even better.  See
>> http://www.horde.org/services for further information.
>>
>> Thanks everyone,
>>
>> michael
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> Michael,
>
> will it be possible to connect to several different servers or all  
> e-mail accounts must be on the same server? I believe you are not  
> planning such meaningless limitations but i better ask.

You can connect to any server reachable from the PHP server.

michael



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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at horde.org]