Migrating email with ImapSync

This tutorial will explain how you can migrate your existing email accounts to our Hosted Email service.

If you want something easy/simple to do , you can use this online tool, and migrate accounts one by one:

https://i005.lamiral.info/X/

OR

If you are a do-it-yourself kind of person, an easy way to automate migration from your old email service provider to our Hosted Email Service is to use ImapSync.

This can be downloaded here:

https://imapsync.lamiral.info

Start with downloading ImapSync. You can either purchase it from the website above, or grab earlier versions from Ubuntu/Debian repositories.

This can also be downloaded from Github, here:

https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync

Once compiled/installed, generate a list of your users in this format:

[source-username],[source-password],[destination-username],[source-password]

Where [source-username] is the source IMAP username (email address), and [destination-username] is the username (email address) for your destination (IMAP server. There should a single source => destination entry per line. Separate new entries with newlines:

SOURCEUSER1@SOURCEDOMAIN.com,password,DESTINATIONUSER1@DESTINATIONDOMAIN.com,password
SOURCEUSER2@SOURCEDOMAIN.com,password,DESTINATIONUSER2@DESTINATIONDOMAIN.com,password
johndoe@test.com,password,janedoe@newtest.com,password 

Save the file as migration.csv. Then run this command:

{ while IFS=',' read u1 p1 u2 p2; do
./imapsync --host1 [source-hostname] --authmech1 PLAIN --user1 "$u1" --password1 "$p1" --prefix1 INBOX/ --sep1 / \
--host2 [destination-hostname] --authmech2 PLAIN --user2 "$u2" --password2 "$p2" --prefix2 INBOX. --sep2 . ...
done ; } < migrations.csv

--prefix1 INBOX/ --sep1 /

--prefix2 INBOX. --sep2 .