[chrispadfield]

Oh buy the way...

issues to consider

- Users with usernames that will not work as email addresses. This is a significant problem. I can only see two solutions:

i) run a script that changes people's username that won't work to one that will work. Then prevent "weird" usernames upon signup
ii) if you have a weird username somewere you have to set up an email account to use.

- Attachments. Going to allow incoming/outgoing?
- Deleting messages that are too big.

Also...

I would realy like it if email could be one of those features that can be "upgraded" for subscribers. The best email upgrade is to allow POP3 collection but this is going to be very hard it we do catch all email. Webmasters could for sure set up a POP3 account for a user who gets one but then they won't be able to get the email online, a work around for this might be:

- admin lists pop3 accounts specially created and associates with a specific user
- these emails are NOT download automatically like the catch all ones are but when the user goes into their control panel, the script checks their individual POP3 account and they don't notice the difference- this could really work.

Also, override settings on things like max messages, attachments allowed, incoming message size, emails per time etc per user would be nice so you could set higher one on an individual basis (or perhaps through an email access level group type system).

These are just all thoughts...