[ also posted on comp.lang.python ] Hi,
I'm the author of OfflineIMAP[1], a bidirectional IMAP synchronization tool. Its job is to let you read IMAP mail with any mail reader that can understand a Maildir, and to keep your mail readers in sync on all your different computers. Here's the problem. I consider OfflineIMAP basically finished. It does more than I ever expected out of it, and I haven't lost any mail from in its entire lifespan. I've done a poor job lately of tracking down bugs that people have submitted and generally of maintaining the code. Part of that is because I don't have time. Part is, I admit, that the problems are just not interesting to me, since OfflineIMAP works fine for me already. I know a lot of people find OfflineIMAP useful, and I feel that I'm letting people down sometimes. So I am asking here for somebody (or beter, several people) that would like to take over development and maintenance on OfflineIMAP. If you don't want that, maybe you could at least handle bug reports and send me diffs. I'm content still making releases, or else pretty much ending my involvement. I could put my Subversion repository back up again, and you could hack on that with me, or you could just take it over to *forge and go your own way. Whatever you prefer. I'm happy to continue hosting the mailing list and answer the "wtf did you do there" questions. OfflineIMAP is pure Python, highly modular, and (I think) easy to work with. With one exception: the IMAP communication code. And that is because it has to use imaplib, which doesn't lend itself very well to, erm, clean code :-) If you're interested, I'd encourage you to sign up[2] for the offlineimap list and post there, so we can get started right away. Thanks, John [1] http://quux.org/devel/offlineimap [2] Send "subscribe" to offlineimap DASH request aT complete dOt org