: How to change the hosting company and keep the email messages? We aren't pleased with our current shared hosting account and we will change our hosting company to AWS (if this matter). The

@Heady270

My own answer - perhaps is useful for someone:

First be sure that you have the same accounts on the old and new server.

Second, look at /home/$username/Mail on the old host and see if there are some files there.

If they are then you must find what format they are by looking at the directory structure (maildir or mbox). Do the same for the new host in order to find what format the IMAP server expects. If the structure is the same, then you can simply copy to the new hosting in the same structure and the messages will simply pop up in your inbox.

More details at rimuhosting.com/knowledgebase/linux/mail/migrating-imap-accounts

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@Bryan171

Upload everything on new server, then during the weekend, change DNS and MX entries.
That's the best solution for this, and that's the way it's done, but still, the clients should be able to access to old e-mail until DNS is propagated.

You can not transfer messages to the new server unless you download them, and reupload them. If your client doesn't use mail client, you need to do that. There's no other solution.

Or... best solution is to convince your client to use mail client such as outlook or thunderbird. :)

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