I'm in a process of transferring one of my web sites to webfaction. Everything went well up until now. I've moved all the files but now it's turn for mail, bunch of them. Forwarding those messages to other account and then to mine account on webfaction is out of question. Is there any way of transferring those mail directly to mine account on webfaction? asked 09 Dec '10, 16:11 zlatiborac |
If your old mail account is IMAP, then you have a few options:
Hope that helps! answered 09 Dec '10, 17:34 seanf Thanks Sean, as always you are very helpful. But this was a bit urgent so I did this like you explained in the second solution (most boring one but...)
(10 Dec '10, 03:47)
zlatiborac
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Hi, I have the same issue, I need to migrate a customer's hosting to webfaction's hosting. The last thing that I need to resolve to complete the process, is to copy all mails from the previous host to webfaction. I think I will use offlineimap, because there are around 20 mailboxes that I need to migrate. I don't have previous experience using this tool, so I have some questions: Could I use offlineimap with single-user install? Or need System-wide install to access the local mailboxes (so i will need to open a support ticket)? How is the right way to configure offlineimap local repository? Where are located the localfolders?
Someone have any previous experience to share? Thanks! Mario. answered 04 Apr '14, 14:48 8ksoft
Yes, you can use it as a single-user install. There are no "local mailboxes" on your web server.
You don't need a local repository if you're transferring mail directly from the old host to us. Instead, you'll configure offlineimap to sync IMAP-to-IMAP instead of IMAP-to-local.
(05 Apr '14, 00:18)
seanf
Thank you Sean. I will try IMAP-to-IMAP configuration. So... with this approach I'll need something like this
I'm right?
(07 Apr '14, 11:19)
8ksoft
You'll also need the password on the WebFaction side. Here's an example of a working IMAP-to-IMAP configuration:
Hope that helps!
(08 Apr '14, 18:42)
seanf
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