Providing Email Address @YourDomain

[DHewes]

This is an old conversation that has appeared on this and several other vB related forums over the 5+ years I have been working with the product. That said, several things have changed and I am seeking the advice from those with experience doing this. The products that were out there have changed as well. Here is the need:

1) Assumption: vB owner is hosting on a shared ISP and has SSH, FTP and web access to the account but not to the root of the server. vB owner does NOT have root access nor can vB owner listen on low port (<1024).

2) Primary Needs:
A) Run a web based email system with a full blown interface similar to Hotmail or GMail.
B) Allow users to have email addresses at your domain using their vB login name as the primary portion of the email: {username}@{domainname}
C) Allow users to check third party POP3/IMAP email addresses within the same interface
D) Allow users to access this mail account via POP3/IMAP daemon running on the ISP shared server on a high port (does not require root access).
E) The mail system should not require any registration. All registration information should be pulled from the vB user system and updated (including passwords) when a user updated in User CP. It is OK to add required fields to the vB system.

There was Hivemail that did a lot of this, but is long since dead. There has been mention that Jelsoft themselves would add this on, but that has not happened (may one day, but I have not seen it mentioned in a long time). SocketMail has all of these features and has promised repeatedly over the last two years to fully integrate with vB, but it has never happened. I also received an email today forwarded by a friend from their dev team that they have stopped development on the integration piece all together and are no longer making any attempt to integrate.

What else is out there - is in current development - works and is likely to be around for awhile matching vB upgrades? I would greatly appreciate any advise.

Thanks!