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Ever wakeup in the morning, and found out your email account is flooded with junk mail again and again? The right solution to solve email spamming will be using the right tool. At hostmonster, your email account created, will have the spam protection features: spam assissin and boxtrapper.

Spam Assassin : “is an automated mail filter that uses a wide range of heuristic algorithms on mail headers and message body text to identify “SPAM” (unsolicited email). Once identified, the mail is tagged as SPAM for later filtering using the user’s desktop mail client. All spam mail goes to spam box, and you still can check those mail if you like, or delete it with single click of a button.“

Boxtrapper : “protects your inbox from spam by forcing all people not on your white list to reply to a verifcation email before they can send mail to you. You can create your white list and add your contacts to this list. Also create a black list and add all spammer email to this address.”

These are the two most effective spam protection system available today, and its available free of charge at your hostmonster shared hosting with unlimited email accounts.

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Hostmonster.com is hosting plan that come with 300gb storage space and allow you to host unlimited domains, or websites in another word. Other than that, with hostmonster, you are given unlimited pop/IMAP email accounts. Meaning you can create or add as many email account you like, and each with own email space and login password. Each email also come with autoresponder, spam assissin & boxtrapper. Will come more on these mail spam protection on later posting.

From cpanel, you can login to the webmail through these: cpanel > webmail > choose horde or squirrelmail webmail. I most prefer horde cause the user interface is much better. Below are the screenshot of the horde and squirrelmail respectively:

You also can directly go to your webmail by browsing to yourdomain.com/webmail , and enter email login information to complete the login and goes to your email account. By this, eliminate the need to go through cpanel login.

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After hosted with hostmonster for more than a week, finally i got the need to setup new email accounts at host monster. i want to have own email account and should look like “support [at] hostmonsterreview.org” … I will use this email for those seo, directory submission and website promotional work purpose.

Email setup at host monster is very easy and simple, i will tell you how and why after this. Basically, not only web developer can do this, any home user that is new to hosting and email setup can do this. Everything is step by step, and with clear message to guide you through. You will see what i meant.

Back to email setup at hostmonster. Login to your cpanel xp evolution control panel and go to mail menu. See figure below:

As you can see at the popup message “you can set up as many POP e-mail account as you require…”… And onyl with hostmonster hosting, you can have unlimited number of email accounts. Sign up here to get this features.

After doing that, you will now at the mail account maintenance interface…that look just like this. Where your existing email accounts will shown here, and you can change setting to it, change its mail box qouta, change password etc.

The way down, there is a button “add account”.. click on it and will open up a new page. Enter in your new email account name. Select which domain this email will attached to. You can setup email for addon domains as well, just selec the right domain name. Assign new password to this email, and Quota limit, left it to default value of 10Megs.

After you setup your email account, you can view its through the hostmonster webmail. Click on the webmail will bring up the new page which ask for password to login to your webmail. Enter password to proceed.

You can link this email account to your outlook account as well. I using outlook express, and the setup process is very simple. i just set the incoming mail server and outgoing mailserver to : mail.hostmonsterreview.org .. and leave the login with authentication those fancy setup blanked. Hostmonster email is easy connect to and not require any advance setup. Futhermore its using the standard smtp/email port 25. which is widely supported.

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If your Hostmonster email can not send out unicode character like: chinese, arabic, or japanese characters, or any other special characters. But showing unreadable symbols and sign, then its caused by charset problem at the hosting php.ini file. You can fix the problem by editing the php.ini file.

What you will need to do is, FTP login to your server and locate the php.ini file. Edit the php.ini using notepad or any text editor… 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 hostmonster php email will now support unicode characters. Basically this method will fix most of the charset problem. However, if this don’t solve it, do contact hostmonster support for futher assistant. Remember to inform them that editing the php.ini dont work.

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A big question today, and i need to know the email sending daily limit, before i hit the error with hostmonster email system. I guess, it will be probably something between 255 daily email limit, same as godaddy email limit. Visit hostmonster.

A quick search at google search engine, bring me to hostmonster forums, and i read something very interesting. A post about “Host monster email limit”, and read on, found out that the defauly hourly limit is 50 emails, which is bit low. Total of 1200 daily email sending limit.

Very interesting part is, you could email hostmonster, and request for a free upgrade to this limit…. to 500 per hour. which gives you 12,000 daily SMTP email sending limits

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