Bluehost Review & Bluehost Discount $3.95/mth – Bluehost Hosted

This article continue the previous bluehost email review. Previous writing is focus on bluehost feature and secure email. This blog posting continue with in deep focus on the bluehost webmail features, and what webmail is offered through the $6.95 bluehost.com 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 are 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 .. simple 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 outtlook express. You can use the auto-configure options to attempt to automatically configure your email application. Cool!

Here is a list of autoconfigure feature provided:

• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook® for IMAP Access
• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook® for IMAP Access (SSL)
• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook® for POP3 Access
• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook® for POP3 Access (SSL)
• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for IMAP Access
• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for IMAP Access (SSL)
• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for POP3 Access
• Auto-Configure Microsoft Outlook Express® for POP3 Access (SSL)

If you are new to boxtrapper, this is the explaination i crop from bluehost help centre

“cPanel BoxTrapper allows you to activate e-mail verification for those not on your white list. This means that any mail address that is not placed on your white list will be required to send back a verification mail to ensure that they are not a spammer. This function can be quite useful in preventing automatic mailings that you do not wish to receive from reaching your inbox.”

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As you may already know, bluehost hosting is offering 300gb hosting space with 2500 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:

• 2500 POP3/POP3 Secure Email Support
• 2500 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.

I having very little email setup this moment, just one .. and link it to my outlook so that i can download and read the email locally.

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