How to access your hostmonster webmail from web browser? Here is what the hostmonster knowledgebase tell us.

“The best way to access webmail is to go to the webmail URL. It is just the domain name with “/webmail” appended to the end. http://yourdomain.com/webmail“

We test this our, the /webmail don’t appear to be working. We are redirected to cpanel site instead, with the url http://www.hostmonsterreview.org:2095/ instead. Don’t close the page yet, and after this we are redirected again to https://www.hostmonster.com/cgi/webmail

A little patient pays off, now you have it, webmail access to your hostmonster email account, all via web browser. Enter your email account and password and proceed with the webmail login. All your email users can access their webmail this way. Also take note that the hostmonster webmail access page is using HTTPS extension, its a secure login page and its encrypted.

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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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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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