Email Server / Migration Help (Serious Help!)

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[JackHadrill]

If both servers support IMAP, imapsync will be your best bet

 

https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync

 

Very easy to use - recommend running it on a server with some spicy bandwidth to keep the transfer times down though

[leadeater]

As @JackHadrill suggested or just use Outlooks ability to copy all emails to a PST file, then just connect Outlook to SquareSpace email server and import the emails. You could actually do it directly since Outlook can connect to more than one email server at a time but it's safer to copy the emails to a PST file first.

[JackHadrill]

As far as ensuring his Outlook setup still works, you'll need to remove his existing account and add the new IMAP account. Outlook (in general, if you look past Exchange services) is mail-provider agnostic so there should be no issues with setting it up to use SquareSpace. Change the MX records for his domain and the IMAP/SMTP account over to SquareSpace's and you should be good to go!

[JackHadrill]

Just now, leadeater said:

As @JackHadrill suggested or just use Outlooks ability to copy all emails to a PST file, then just connect Outlook to SquareSpace email server and import the emails. You could actually do it directly since Outlook can connect to more than one email server at a time but it's safer to copy the emails to a PST file first.

Outlook works too! I just had horrid flashbacks from moving mother's 15GB POP emails over to a new shiny IMAP mail server at 0.36Mbps upload. :')

[leadeater]

You'll likely also need the UDAI for the domain so you can transfer registration authority to SquareSpace.