- Migrating IMAP email accounts to new hosting company
- Posted by wd on January 12th, 2006
I am moving a site from one hosting company to another. The domain name
has email accounts with many IMAP folders in them. Is there an easy
way to transfer the email accounts (including folders and email) to the
new server?
I can think of a complicated way to do it, by dragging and dropping with
an email account at another domain in my email client, but there must be a
better way.
- Posted by David Dorward on January 12th, 2006
wd wrote:
Log in to the shell on one server and create a tarball. Copy it to the other
server. Extract it. Possibly do some munging of the data to get it to fit
the new system (e.g. if it was in mbox format and is now in maildir
format).
.... this does assume that the data is stored in standard formats to start
with.
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