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Moving Email from an Old Server to a New Server
- Start > Run > "explorer" > Enter
- Type your ftp:// thing (above) into the address bar > Enter
- Right click on the screen & "Login As"
- Enter your cPanel username/password, or you can use your FTP (probably the same), just be sure you have full permissions to the root directory.
Once you're in, click MAIL
Click the email address you want to restore.
Your current email will be stored in the folder called "cur", but you can COPY any of the folders in there. So do that - highlight > copy.
Save to your hard drive somewhere - desktop, zip, I don't care. Just paste it somewhere. Don't try to get fancy and put it on a CD or DVD. Just KISS....put it on your hard drive. It will take a LONG TIME to download. The more email you have, the longer it takes.
Upload these files to your new host in the MAIL directory that resides in the ROOT directory. This should restore your emails. You can do the upload via FTP client, it was the downloading that wasn't happenin' in the FTP client. I use FileZilla.
If you have no idea what I just typed up there, then maybe this isn't a good project for you. Or you can send me $50 to type out the instructions in layman's terms. :D
I only transferred the "cur" folder, I didn't try any others but I can't imagine it wuuld be any different.
You MUST have a normal host to do this. I'm betting it won't work on a big reseller host like GoDaddy because they like to restrict your access. Pppplllllltttt on them.
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