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A website is the response a web server sends on a web port to a web browser. SMTP on port 80/443 won’t work well, but please try.
You understand that computers can use more than one port?
There's nothing abnormal about what he's requesting.
You understand that web servers (listening on a web server port) and mail servers (listening on one or more mail server ports, possibly on the same computer) are entirely different technologies?
They're just protocols. There's nothing preventing a program from interacting with both. Webmail isn't some mystical art no one's ever thought of before.
Again, I’m talking about the server part here, and there is a lot preventing a server to be both a web and a mail server.
Doesn't look like "a lot" to me. 15 years and going strong. The first page of google results for "how to set up a mail server" all include webmail, which would be both a web and a mail server.
It's just a computer (or program, depending on context). It can do whatever you want it to.
If I want to write/modify a mail server that watches video feeds from 6 different beaches and only bothers accepting mail when beaches 2, 3 and 5 are empty and beaches 1, 4, and 6 have 500 people, nothing is stopping me. It's stupid and a waste of time, but it's a computer. It can run arbitrary code.
That's ignoring that if you read what he wants, it would be a client to the actual recipient mail server and only needs to actually serve the web interface so that he can access his email from various browsers.