Are you using imap folders Vince. You will need to recreate and manualy move the messages I think unless there is a program I dont know of. Maybe it would be better to warn the users and let them make their own arrangements Al ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vince Teachout" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, February 21, 2009 4:40 AM Subject: [NF] Moving web host - how to handle user e-mail?
> Coincident with a growing frustration with my current web host, I notice > that my yearly contract with them is about to expire. > > Perfect time to move to a new host. > > My problem is that I'm using them to host two other web sites. Moving > the web sites are no problem. > > However, one of the sites has 15 email accounts. > > 1. How do I handle moving the user e-mail accounts over? Specifically, > the passwords? Do I recreate the accounts on the new host, set a > default pw, and send an e-mail to the users (before pulling the plug on > the old host!) telling them at such-and-such a date, they must use this > new PW to sign in, and then change their pw? How is this usually done? > > 2. Some of the users have messages in their folders. How do I move > these? I can't imaging that "Save it or lose it" is how REAL web > host-ers do it. > > Question 1 above is academic. I'd really like to know the proper > answer, but in this particular case, I happen to know the user PWs (they > never changed the default!) so can easily recreate mailboxes with the > same PW. > > Question 2 is a real problem for me. > > How do you *real* hosters do this? > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
