Question

Is it possible to create an email address using SMTP and PHP on server programmatically with PHP or maybe some other programming language?
I have an hosting account with a Bluehost. The host lets us create email address manually. Example: [e-mail]
Then people can send emails to the account because when the account is created, it also has
its own inbox. I wanted to know if it is possible to make those email accounts somehow in PHP. Im using Bluehost as my domain host.

Answer 1

No, SMTP is a mail transfer protocol, it is not applicable for managing a mail server. On the other hand a specific mail server may have an interface which can be used to create users accounts. For example Apache James contains a Telnet like interface and among others it has a command for creating a new user account. This can be considered easily scriptable, but I do not know how much help PHP provides in this specific case.