If you’re hosting your site or blog at BlueHost.com and with iPhone Mail, you can check your BlueHost mail account on your iPhone. iPhone Mail has a few preset for popular free webmail services, including Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, AOL, Hotmail, MobileMe and etc. When you’re setting your Gmail account on the iPhone Mail, you just need to enter your name, e-mail address, password, the description and press save button. Once your information has been verified, you can access your Gmail account directly from your iPhone.
I’ve hosted 2 blogs (my blog – The iPhone Blogging and my wife’s blog – Our Journey Begins) and a website (It’s all about Alvin & Ricka) at BlueHost.com. I’ve received a lot of e-mails from the iPhone users and to respond, I reply their e-mails directly on my iPhone. Since iPhone Mail doesn’t have any preset for BlueHost mail, you need to manually enter the settings and I’m going to show what are the settings you need to enter.
On your iPhone, go to Settings, Mail Contacts Calendars and Add Account. Select Other and choose Add Mail Account.
Enter your your name, address, password and the description. When you’re done, press the save button and wait for verifying.
BlueHost account information
Next, you need to enter the address of the Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server. You can get it on your BlueHost account.
Login to your BlueHost account and go to cPanel, Email Accounts, Access Webmail and enter your password to login.
After that, click on Configure Mail Client and you can find the Incoming and Outgoing Mail Server under Manual Settings. Eg, box###.bluehost.com.
Then, press the save button and wait for verifying. You can access your BlueHost mail account immediately once verification done.
Incoming Mail Server
Outgoing Mail Server
P/S: If you’re having problem on deleting the e-mails, you need to set the IMAP Path Prefix to INBOX at Settings, Mail Contacts Calendars, Email Account and Advanced.
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Thanks for your post. I, too, have my my bluehost email set up on my iPhone for my consulting practice. For some reason whenever I check my email on the phone, it updates the inbox folder with new email, and then immediately deletes the old emails. Do you know why this might be happening?
Thanks you so much for this! I couldn’t send any emails and I couldn’t delete them on my iPhone either! Now I know why!