I use it, and built my orriginal hivemail userdatabase with info from my vbulletin db months and months ago.

Only problems I have had have been of my own doing more or less. Every once in a while I have had a glitch or the like, but in all honestly I have had my computer crash on me probably a hundred more times than I have had problems with hivemail.

I run over hundred domain names on mine, no problems. No once can register through the hivemail system, it alll has to be done through vbulletin. Again no problems.

Integration has been simple as pie, even though the forums are at http://sportsforum.ws and the email is at http://efsw.com

I personally got it and did not plan on using it, I have completely dumped outlook and exclusively use hivemail - the preview feature is the best damn thing I have ever seen in a webbased email. Its like outlook to me because of that, yet if I fry this piece of crap 2.53 ghz again I know that I will still have my email for a change.

The code is written very well.

Wow, old thread here teck :p

But as a potential buyer, I didn't know that :)

not to mention since then you wrote your own ;)

I wrote my own as a direct result of that. I couldn't find any "good" (that I could tell), strongly vB-integrated systems for my site, so I wrote my own. I'm pretty impressed that I was able to, if I do say so myself :D

What is the difference in them besides maker and price. Can one do more then the other.

I am soon to buy one for one my sites due to members want it. But I need for it to be very intergrated such as dif usergroups and (vb3 add on groups) get dif alotments of space and so on they can use.

If you're referring to the difference between HiveMail and vBMS (which wasn't really explicitly mentioned but implied):

HiveMail: More powerful, weaker vBulletin integration, more expensive
vBMS: Less powerful, very strong vBulletin integration (moreover, it's powered by vB), less expensive

Each product has its place depending on the application.

Hivemail has a demo @ http://demo.hivemail.com and filburt has a demo @ http://www.webdesignforums.net/vbms/demo.php

You can make your decision off of that :)

vBMS requires you do be a WDFplus member to use its demo