On 3/14/07 7:57 AM, Subscirptions deftly typed out: > I currently have some IMAP accounts as well as POP accounts for my business > and am planning on switching hosting companies. I understand that the POP > emails are stored here locally and the IMAP¹s are stored in the server. My > question is, how do I get the IMAP emails onto my new server of the new > hosting company? I have hundreds and hundreds of emails so forwarding them > onto myself wouldn¹t be a great option. I¹m assuming I¹d want to do some type > of ³Archive² or ³Export² or somehow download all of my messages from the > current server, then upload them to the server? So in short, how do I; > > Switch hosting accounts and retain all my current IMAP emails?
I went through this about a year ago. Just make sure that you have all messages fully downloaded in your old IMAP account. Then when you create the new account you can drag the messages to their respective new folders. Unfortunately you can't drag folders to IMAP accounts. It's annoying because it means that you have to recreate your folder structure by hand on the new account before you can move/copy the messages. Whatever you do, don't delete your old account in Entourage until you are completely sure the messages have been moved/copied to the new account. When you delete an IMAP account, it purges all of the account's messages from the mail database. If your old provider cuts off access that's fine. You'll get connect/auth errors, but you will still have access to all of the downloaded mail. Just take the old account out of your Send & Receive All schedule. > The other factor is, whatever method you guys recommend, I¹d like the messages > to retain their original ³Sent² date. The original "Sent" date is always retained (it's physically stamped in the source of the message). Entourage, by default for IMAP accounts at least, sorts messages by "Received" date. As long as you do all of your moving with Entourage you should be OK. If you do the moving with another mail client (Mail, Thunderbird, etc.) Entourage won't have any received info to transfer to the newly copied messages, so the Received date will be reset to the time of the move/copy. If/when that happens you can just show the Sent column and sort by that. -Remo Del Bello -- "The very first time I touched your skin I thought of a story And rushed to reach the end too soon " - The Cure: Primary -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
