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Migrating emails from one hosting server to another.

Here's my situation.

I have a client who has their email hosted privately.

They have had problems with their website & want to leave their hosting company.
The project has fallen onto my shoulders.

I need to move their website & mysql db to another hosting company & point their dns respectfully.... Not a problem.

What should I do about their email ??
They have about 40 accounts now & rely heavily on email for communication.

What's the best method for migrating this to another company?

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The_Systech

Good point on the 60 second TTL.... I have never run into that myself, but then I usually keep it around 600 seconds anyway..

Imaginx

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Systech, The client has held off with the project for a few weeks. Although, I spoke with their in-house IT guy ... They're all pop3 ...

And looking at what you wrote, I'm sure that will work - so I'm going to through the points your way ...
However, I originally thought that they were IMAP (which I should have noted in my statement above) - which was where my concern came from..

Is there even a process for that, other than going into each mailbox & getting the mail manually ??

Thanks,
-Steve

Imaginx

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Misread it, I will split the points between the two of you. -Steve