Thanks for the response. Messages transferred server to server. So - the message is that it wasn't happy with what is on my computer because it didn't match the new server? Got it - that makes sense.

However now they all deleted on the new server as well. I'm awaiting customer support to restore from the cPanel migration file. And it seems the MX records weren't set right at some point. I'll wait for propagation. Sigh.. I did try to do this on the weekend.

Annamarie

Annamarie Pluhar
802-451-1941
802-579-5975 (iPhone - not good when I'm at my desk.)

On 5 Mar 2018, at 9:03, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:

On 4 Mar 2018, at 21:07, Annamarie wrote:

Hi

I'll get technical help from my new hosting service in the AM but the time I spend with the person on Chat was not great - and he wanted to tell me my client was at fault!!!!! NOT.

But I am getting a specific error and I dont' know enough to know what to do about it. Screenshot attached.

Do the rebuild.

IMAP requires a unique, stable identifier for every message. Depending on how you copied the server-side messages over, that could indeed have changed with a new server. Rebuilding takes a while, but all it's really doing is getting each message anew, with its new identifier.

Now: whether or not that's really the problem does, as I said, depend on how you copied the messages. If it was done by some sort of file transfer, server to server, it's quite likely. If, on the other hand, you used a mail client to copy things, you should be ok. *However* -- if you copied stuff manually that way, but then changed the MailMate settings to point to the new server, the message you saw is almost certainly correct. In fact, MailMate warns you about that, as I recall from when I did something similar a few months ago.


Also I don't quite trust the automated info in the CPanel about the incoming server and outgoing.. They are telling me that all i need is domain.com .. aren't there usually three words with a dot between them?

There's no one rule. What you were told is 100% plausible.

Chat guy did suggest I delete the email account and rebuild it. I'll lose my smart mailboxes but I shouldn't lose any email, right?

Right.

BTW: we are talking about six different email accounts on four domains. YES! I should have done one and tested it. I didn't. Thought I knew what I was doing. Good thing this list serve is on gmail. : )

Thanks
Annamarie

Annamarie Pluhar
802-451-1941
802-579-5975 (iPhone - not good when I'm at my desk.)
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