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#61 Support IMAP accounts
How dificult is to add support for checking general IMAP accounts?
This could mean not only checking gmail through the imap interface but every other imap server around (including those that we are forced to use at work).
Honestly, checkgmail has the best UI of all email checkers I've tried... and I would like to use it for all email accounts... not just gmail.
Plus, I'm willing to collaborate, though my perl is quite rusty...
In a way, it's quite a lot of work. CheckGmail does not use the IMAP support of Gmail at all, instead relying on a stability in the HTTP handling from Gmail's part, requests all info via POST and GET.
In another way, it's not that much work, and will actually probably mostly be a question of ripping out a great deal of error-prone code (every small change from Google can be lethal in its current state - they are not committed to letting the HTTP API be stable) and replacing it with standards based IMAP requests.
When CheckGmail was created, I believe the IMAP alternative was not as developed on Gmail's side as it is today.
I also find the UI brilliant. Related is my longer comment on http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3406322&group_id=137480&atid=738663