[Hidden-tech] Moving hosting but saving e-mail?

[Charles Uchu Strader]

Anne,

It is totally possible to do this from a hosting server to hosting 
server level.  You'll need to:

1) Make sure the email service is upgraded at GoDaddy so that IMAP 
service is available, they don't offer it with their cut-rate priced plans.

2) Get the folks you host with to use imapsync on their server to sync 
the mailboxes directly from GoDaddy to their server. (ref: 
http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/ )

The option of downloading to desktop client software is another way to 
do this, but for a mailbox that might already a huge amount of old mail 
stored will take quite a while for the sync to happen.  The direct 
server to server way is most clean and quick.

Cheers,

Charles Uchu Strader
charles at gaiahost.coop 1-800-672-8060 x803
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> Hi all,
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> I have a client who has had a Web site through GoDaddy's "Website 
> Tonight" for a couple of years. They're ready to make the move away 
> from GoDaddy and let me host the new site for them (I have a hosting 
> reseller account). I'm happy to do this for them, but not sure what 
> will happen to their e-mail when the hosting switches over. They 
> currently use GoDaddy's Web-based e-mail, so it's not like their 
> messages are saved locally using a mail client. They have a couple of 
> years' worth of conversations that they need to save, so I don't want 
> to switch the hosting and make all of those disappear. Has anyone been 
> through this before with a client using Web-based e-mail at their 
> domain? What happens to those messages? Is there any way to make sure 
> they transfer over?
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> Thanks very much -
> Anne
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