Mailhandler for Drupal 6

I use mailhandler to let family post content to my site from abroad, so in preparation for D-6 I need mailhandler. From an earlier post on this project there was a comment that hardly anyone works on mailhandler these days, so I have taken the liberty of making a start on migrating it (I've migrated a couple of my own modules recently, so was getting familiar with where changes are needed).

I've actually completed the bulk of the update, but at the same time I've taken the liberty of adjusting some of the code to make slightly more use of the form API to handle various pages, which eliminates a couple of functions.

The bulk of mailhandler's code is to do with admin and page retrieval, so I have hived these off in to separate includes, leaving the main module fairly slm.

However, I use mailhandler with my mailsave project to collect emails, and my family have a habit of sending many emails in one go, often with large attachments. This was giving me a time out error on cron.

I am therefore currently doing a couple of experiments such that (a) a manual download is created as a batch, using the new batch API, and (b) making cron retrievals fetch just a few messages at a time.

In respect of (a) I have working code, and it looks ok so far - a nice progress bar, and successful retrieval of 34 emails in one go with no timeout! In respect of (b) it is still work in progress, but seems to be coming together.

I'm hoping to get a bit further over the next week or so, and can then post something back for onward development.

Hope this helps! And hope whoever is the project maintainer doesn't mind :-)

Cheers

Stuart