Moving mail from one account to another

by Robert Mills 23. April 2011 10:27

So, having moved hosts this weekend, I ended up with a bunch of accounts that needed their mail migrated.

Any interesting (at least to me) way to do this is to add both accounts to Outlook, setting up the destination account as a IMAP account and then just dragging and dropping all of the mail into the new account.

Because it is IMAP instead of POP, it actually syncs from the client side as well and pushes all the emails to the server. You can use IMAP to create any folder structure you might have had on the old account to keep your organization etc.

Filing this under cool easy things I didn't previously know.

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My name is Robert Mills and I am a .NET developer in Charlotte(ish), NC. While everyone is welcome to peruse, most of these posts won't actually provide any value, they are just a reminder to me so I won't forget.

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