Bluehost shared hosting is complete with unlimited email accounts, a feature that enable you to create unlimited email accounts for your user. One Bluehost hosting account gives you one cPanel control panel, and within this single control panel you can add new email accounts for your domain names. Each domain names can have unlimited email accounts created and attached to it.

For example your company with 50 staff and 50 other sales personal, you can create email accounts for each of them, and every single of them have their own mailbox and mail storage space. Each user has their email login and password and access to their own mail box, either via email client software or via webmail online access.

Bluehost is offering unlimited hosting space with unlimited POP/IMAP email accounts. That is lots of email accounts that you can create, and each email account will have their own login name and password. Bluehost extend the offer, and not limited to that. The latest Bluehost offers are:

• Unlimited POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support
• Unlimited IMAP/Secure IMAP Email Support
• 2 Different Web Based Email Solutions
• Forwarding Email Accounts
• Email Autoresponder
• Email Boxtrapper & spam assassin

If you see closely, you will notice that the email services had been upgraded and supporting secure email now. Not many hosting provider offering secure email connection. When you login to Bluehost cPanel, you can go to mail > email accounts. And here is the email account manager for you to create new email account and assign new login password and also set mailbox quota.

When adding new email account in your Bluehost web hosting account, you can choose to set the mailbox size quota, grant bigger storage space to those requiring it and less for those that uses less. The email login and setting info is made available on the control panel too, including the incoming mail server setting and outgoing mail server setting and email port numbers to use.

Mail Client Configuration for webmaster@bluehostreview.org
When you access an email account through a desktop email application such as Outlook® Express®, the email application will require specific information about your email account. You can use the auto-configure options below to attempt to automatically configure your email application. If the available options are not compatible with your application, you will need to use the Manual Settings information.

Note: IMAP email access coordinates between the server and your mail application. Messages that have been read/deleted/replied-to will show as read/deleted/replied-to both on the server and in the mail application. POP3 does not coordinate with the server. Messages marked as read/deleted/replied-to in the mail application will not show as read/deleted/replied-to on the server. This means that future downloads of your inbox or other mailboxes with POP3 will show all messages as unread.

We can use any email client software to connect to our Bluehost email account, the configuration provided is as following

Manual Settings
Mail Server Username: webmaster+bluehostreview.org
Incoming Mail Server: mail.bluehostreview.org
Incoming Mail Server: (SSL) box466.bluehost.com
Outgoing Mail Server: mail.bluehostreview.org (server requires authentication) port 26
Outgoing Mail Server: (SSL) box466.bluehost.com (server requires authentication) port 465
Supported Incoming Mail Protocols: POP3, POP3S (SSL/TLS), IMAP, IMAPS (SSL/TLS)
Supported Outgoing Mail Protocols: SMTP, SMTPS (SSL/TLS)

Note that Bluehost email accounts is come with spam protection, you can enable the spam assassin for your email account and protect it from spamming. On top of that, Bluehost is with Postini email protection too, available via upgrade on request.

Not just that, from Bluehost cPanel you get to edit the email MX entry and also configure the email auto responder content too, it’s a complete email service from Bluehost web hosting.

Bluehost Email content with Unicode supported

If your Bluehost email is not supporting Unicode character like Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, or Indian characters, the Email will shows unreadable symbols and sign that will not appear correctly at recipient site. Then it’s caused by Charset problem at the php.ini file. You can fix this problem yourself.

FTP login to your server and locate the php.ini file. Edit the php.ini using notepad… and add in these lines.

[mbstring]
mbstring.language = Neutral
mbstring.internal_encoding = UTF-8
mbstring.http_input = UTF-8
mbstring.http_output = UTF-8
mbstring.encoding_translation = On
mbstring.detect_order = auto
mbstring.substitute_character = long;
mbstring.func_overload = 1

By this, your PHP email will now support Unicode. Basically this method will fix most of the Charset problem. However, if this doesn’t solve it, do contact Bluehost support for assistant.

Bluehost SMTP Daily Email Sending

How many emails can be sent from Bluehost shared hosting? What is the email sending limits? We noticed that the SMTP email sending at Bluehost server is limited at 50 eMail per every hour. That is 1200 email sending per day. Compare to Godaddy 250 SMTP email daily limit. This daily limit are in place to prevent user involved in email spamming activities, which is totally block by this hourly email limits.

Everyday we receiving 10 email spam on average. Sometime thing get worst and we got more than 100 of them. With nonsense spam advertisement and African wills of 200millions, or won a jackpot. These spams will keep coming. It’s time to put an end to it.

Spend a little time and you will found a solution that will save you lots of time, instead of wasted on screening those spam mails. We had found my best spam protection solution, and it’s a free solution. We’re talking about Boxtrapper email spam protection.

My web hosting plan with Bluehost hosting, are come with Boxtrapper email protection. And we can activate it for free. It uses a very effective method to block spam from reaching you. You can add people you know into your ‘white list’, and block spammer emails, or email with certain keyword that you want to block.

This is the simple and effective way we are looking for. If the email sender that is not in your white list sent an email to you, he is require to reply to the verification email. And only once he is verified, the email will reach you. Email bots are not capable to fool this system.

Once we were having an email account that received a spam mail every 5 minutes, and its keep coming in like crazy. It’s frustrated, and you can’t do anything if your email accounts that not have the Boxtrapper feature. Think again, you will need email spam protection for your email. And definitely, not all web hosting are offering this. This website will have more information about email account with Bluehost and also Boxtrapper features.

A good web hosting must have good email system and a good email system must have an effective spam protection. That’s what we want.

This article continues the previous Bluehost email review. Previous writing is focus on their feature and secure email. This blog posting continue with in deep focus on the Bluehost webmail features, and what webmail is offered through the Bluehost web hosting account.

Bluehost shared hosting is come with 2500 email accounts, and each email account you created are an individual mailbox attached to the TLD. Sample mailbox is look like this “support@Bluehostreview.org”, where the support is the email account name.

From the cPanel > mail > webmail… you will get to the webmail interface. Here you can choose to login to Horde or Squirrelmail. Or you can use shortcut to login to your webmail account with this format, yourdomain.com/webmail. Simply add “/webmail” to the end of your domain name, will bring you to the webmail interface. Enter your login information to go to your mailbox.

There is a mail client configuration link as well. Inside is step by step tutorial/guide to help you to setup email client like Outlook Express. You can use the auto-configure options to attempt to automatically configure your email application. Cool!