>On 08/01/2013 12:56 PM, Michael M Slusarz wrote: >> Quoting Andy Dorman <ador...@ironicdesign.com>: >> >>> So, I have a question for all you awesome Horde developers...do any of >>> you have the time to work on updating the old fetchmail feature to >>> work with the latest horde/imp, and do you have any sort of estimate >>> as to the cost? >> >> The old fetchmail functionality is not coming back. It simply doesn't >> work coherently/properly in a PHP environment with limited process times >> (and is non-threaded). >> >> The replacement MUST be the ability to access multiple accounts within a >> single session. But this is not a trivial change, and thus far nobody >> has ponied up the funding needed to accomplish this (this would probably >> require week(s) of work, as opposed to hours). >> >> michael >> >Michael, thanks for the info. > >I should have stated my query differently. We need the capability to >access multiple accounts. It just happens that is what fetchmail did, >so I used it as a shorthand description of the Use Case.. > >FWIW, I have used fetchmail for about 6 years, once or twice a day, and >never had any trouble with it (even used it last night on our production >system to fetch over 300 emails from gmail). But I am a sample size of >1 and I honestly do not know who else in our user base uses it. > >So, weeks of work. I wonder if anyone else on the list needs the >ability to access email in multiple accounts through the web interface? > Perhaps several companies could get together and pledge enough? > >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? azur -- imp mailing list Frequently Asked Questions: http://wiki.horde.org/FAQ To unsubscribe, mail: imp-unsubscr...@lists.horde.org