Lunarpages Shared Hosting Plan Popular Email Features

The Lunarpages Basic Hosting Pack offers vital and valuable email features. These email features are real value for money when weighted for their usefulness for prospective as well as existing customers.

In this post, I am writing about the email facilities that you get when you buy the Basic Hosting pack from Lunarpages.

First, some explanation of email and why people take paid email accounts.

Email is certainly the most popular way of online communication nowadays. The reasons behind the popularity of email are – Ease of use (setup and usage), economical (almost no cost) and quickness (deliverability in few seconds if everything is fine). I have seen even small school going kids communicating via email. Using email is great! Isn’t it?

There are plenty of free webmail service providers, such as hotmail, yahoo, gmail etc. But, the real charm of having an email address is on your own domain as you can use any emailname@domainname.extension. While you might have to struggle to find the right domain name, but once you get it, you can easily configure the email usernames and their quotas etc. from the Hosting Control Panel.

The biggest reason why people go for paid email accounts from hosting companies is the professional look of the email addresses and their setup, control, management, and email account features.

Enough background of why it really pays to go for a paid email account from a hosting company. Now, I can sense that you are getting somewhat interested in a paid email account. If you are planning to run an online business Or you currently have one, then you must go for paid email accounts.

Let me now show you what is in store for you in terms of email features if you purchase a Lunarpages basic hosting plan (basic and shared hosting terms are the same in Lunarpages hosting terminology).

OK, here are the core email account highlights in the Lunarpages basic hosting plan, costing just $4.95/month at the time of writing, with some brief explanations of email features wherever needed:

- Email Account Creation By Plesk and Cpanel

Various email accounts for your Lunarpages domain can be created with ease by configuring mail name, password, mailbox quota, spam filtering and other settings via Plesk and Cpanel software provided via browser interface.

- Webmail Remote Access From Standard Browsers

The Email account can be accessed from web browsers – Microsoft IE, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and Netscape Navigator etc. by using Horde or Sqirrelmail web mail clients. This allows you to access your mail from any location, anywhere in the world!

Examples of URL’s that can used for accessing webmail:

http://yourdomainname.com/webmail

http://yourdomainname.com:2095

https://yourdomainname.com:2096 (secure)

- Email Access Through Popular Email Clients

You can access your Lunarpages basic hosting domain account email through well known email software (also know as email clients). Some of the popular email clients supported are – Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, Eudora, Pine, Lotus Notes, Entourage for OS X, Mac Mail for OS X and KDE desktop for Linux.

These email clients can be configured to use POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3), IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) and HTTP email server configuration. All email configuration details are provided by Lunarpages but sometimes you may have to use your ISP mail server settings.

IMAP will work for Linux hosted email accounts at Lunarpages but not for Windows servers.

Lunarpages email accounts can also be accessed from Blackberry and the iphone.

- Number Of Email Addresses Creation And Message Storage

Unlimited email addresses can be created. After you purchase basic hosting and login to cpanel, don’t feel cheated if you see 999 as the email account limit, as it’s due to display restrictions by the server. I repeat, unlimited email accounts can be created, just contact Lunarpages support if you need more than 999 email addresses. BTW – 999 is still a lot of email accounts, and it’s very unlikely that you will go over that limit.

There are no limits on the number of email messages you can store, however, you have to use the email storage for your own setup only and not for others (no reselling). Kindly note that disk quota limit can be set to a higher limit if you are getting mail box full error messages, but you should not set the mailbox quota to unlimited megabytes, set it above the reasonable limit that you can think of.

- Message Sending Limit

10 MB (megabyte) is the sending limit on the outgoing email including the header, body and attachment. The limit on the number of emails to be sent in one hour is 200-300 and 20 per minute.

To manage the email sending limits well, mailing list programs – DadaMail and PHPList are supported.

- Message Receiving Limit

The maximum size of a received email (including header, message and attachment) is 50 Megabytes, 5 times greater than the sending limit.

There is no limit on receiving the number of emails but the total size of the emails mustn’t cross your inbox quota.

- Autoresponses Setup

On vacation auto email messages can be configured by using Autoresponder feature in cpanel.

- Email Filters

Via Cpanel backup, filter file can be edited to block messages having attachment of one or more particular extension, for example .exe.

- Email Forwarding and Email Aliases

Emails can be forwarded to single or multiple addresses on another host or ISP. The feature of either keeping a copy of the forwarded email or not keeping it is also supported.

Email aliases are forwarding email addresses often used for long or hard to remember email addresses. Multiple email aliases are supported with the replies always received at the real email account.

- Spam Blocking By SpamAssassin And Spam Box

Unsolicited message or Spam can be stopped by enabling Spam Assasin and Spam Box. Spam box keeps the flagged email so that false positives (wrongly judged as spam) can be moved to the Inbox.

- Mailing Lists Support

Mailing list is valuable in contacting several email addresses at once, example a newsletter. One mailing list is provided by default in the basic hosting and you can buy more at $2.95 per mailing list. (at the time of writing)

- NMS Scripts For Email Forms

Free NMS HTML or Perl form scripts can be used to receive email messages from site visitors by getting details filled in using a contact form.

- Addition Of Customized MX Records

For customers interested in setting up their own email servers, the required Mail Exchanger (MX) records can be added by the Lunarpages hosting team in their DNS server.

And much more…..

Frankly, there are so many email features included that I could fill another blog post writing about them all, but I think I’ve covered the main ones for you! At $4.95 per month, the basic email features coupled with the hosting features – unlimited bandwidth and unlimited disk space etc. it’s an excellent deal!

I hope that this post discussing the Lunarpages basic hosting email features was as useful as the earlier ones!

If you decide to go for Lunarpages basic hosting after seeing the above email features, then please do make use of the discount links in the box below. To Your Success!