How Not to Lose Emails During Propagation Time After a Nameserver Change
If you have mulitple of email addresses, you will need to go through the process for each email account. Because of this, the emails need to be moved over from the older server to your new server. Of note, there are more steps involved when you use IMAP because emails are stored on the server and aren’t actually downloaded to your local computer. As noted in that article, while we use Thunderbird as an example, you can follow the process with other email clients as well. If you used IMAP with your previous host, you need to follow the steps outlined in our using thunderbird to transfer emails between servers article for step-by-step instructions for transferring your emails. However, you will want to review the section below on how not to lose emails when you point your domain to our nameservers. If you used a POP3 connection with your previous host, your emails are already downloaded to your local computer and you will not have to follow additional steps to move your emails. Please see our creating an email account article to learn how to create email accounts in cPanel. If you’re not sure which connection you used, check your email settings in your old email client.īefore starting the transfer process, you will need to set up your email accounts on your new server at InMotion hosting. The steps involved will depend on whether you used POP3 or IMAP to check emails at your previous host.
In this article, we’ll go over transferring emails from your old host to InMotion Hosting.
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