6 Transfer emails
Emails on an old domain or hoster often need to be transferred to corresponding accounts on the new domain or hoster.
Up to 48 hours may be needed to perform this procedure, during which email access will be disrupted. Accordingly, doing this over a weekend may cause the least disruption.
This is a complex technical process. For those who are challenged by such things, seek help from someone who is very familiar with email clients and
Shifting a single domain means that all the emails for accounts using the domain need to be moved as well. Try to delete as many unnecessary emails as possible, and put the rest into folders, before then to minimise the time taken in the transfer. A drag-and-drop email client, like Outlook, will be necessary to move folders and individual emails between the old and new systems. A temporary email account not on the domain is needed as well. If using a separate domain for the hosting account, an email account created on that domain for just this purpose will be best as it will be empty.
This procedure is best done on a computer because it involves a lot of drag-and-dropping between three email accounts and a mouse is much more accurate and reliable for doing that when the target is text rather than a large area. Since the email transfer has to be done for every account on the domain, if using a single intermediate email account, do only one account at a time to avoid confusion.
The domain transfer process may have involved pointing the registrar's DNS servers at the new hoster. It can take up to 48 hours for the DNS servers across the internet to update themselves, so emails can arrive at either server during the transition, depending where they originate from. The emails need to be copied from the old server to the temporary account beforehand, and copied from there to the new server afterward.
Steps
△The role to perform this procedure is: Site owner.
on the new server for each email account on the old server.
as a temporary holding account for all emails, with a folder for each email account.
for each email account and the temporary account.
for the new server if not already.
by performing:
by opening it one instance of the email program.
by opening it another instance of the email program.
in the temporary holding account for the email account to be transferred, with a name matching the email account to be transferred.
by dragging and dropping the folder from current account to the temporary account's folder. The
for each of the remaining folders.
for each of the remaining accounts.
for the new server if not already.
by visiting the domain, and if the article created at step 4 does not show in the home page's subsite navigation bar, the new site is live.
by performing:
by opening it another instance of the email program.
on the new site.
by opening it one instance of the email program.
by dragging and dropping the folder from the temporary account's folder to the new account. The
for each of the remaining folders.
as per the email client's process for that.
as per the
by creating any rules and forwarders for the accounts on their new domain or hoster that existed on their old one.