{"id":51,"date":"2023-10-06T08:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T08:39:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.hostitsmart.com\/manage\/knowledgebase\/?p=51"},"modified":"2023-10-06T13:17:01","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T13:17:01","slug":"How-to-transfer-email-accounts-and-messages-between-cPanel-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.hostitsmart.com\/manage\/knowledgebase\/51\/How-to-transfer-email-accounts-and-messages-between-cPanel-servers.html","title":{"rendered":"How to transfer email accounts and messages between cPanel servers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kb-article-content\">\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">an easier method would be to download a full backup from the old server and restore it on the new server.<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">This will automatically create all your email accounts on the new server with same passwords and copy all the old email files. This article becomes relevant when you do not have such a facility or for some reason you do not want to do a full backup-restore<\/span>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">This is actually quite a simple task if your source and destination accounts are both on cPanel<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><strong>Step 1.<\/strong> Create Email accounts on the new server<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">As a first step, create all your email accounts on the new server, as they exist on the old server. This can be done from your cPanel control panel on the new server. To do this, the iconized link you need to click in your new <\/span><\/span><em><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">cpanel is &#8211;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\"><strong>E-mail accounts<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><strong>Step 2.<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Download Emails from the old server.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000; text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">After establishing FTP connection (using any standard ftp client), navigate to the root directory of your hosting account. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\">All your emails are under the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">mail<\/em><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>directory. When you drill down to the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">mail<\/em><span style=\"font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline ! important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>directory,<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">You need to download everything under the mail directory.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3.<\/strong> Move Emails to the new server<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">Now, disconnect from the old server and connect to the new server via FTP. Navigate to the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">mail<\/em><\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>directory on the new server. Upload everything that you downloaded from the old<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">mail<\/em><\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>directory on to the new<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;\"><em style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">mail<\/em><\/strong><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>directory. This will copy everything on the new server. If you already had some emails on the new server (in case you decided to move emails from old server after having operated the new one for some time), you do not have to worry. They will remain intact and your old mails will simply get added on to the corresponding directories on the new server.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\">Once all files are uploaded, you are DONE. You can verify that old mails have indeed moved into your newly created email accounts, by logging into your new email accounts using a webmail interface.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium; color: #000000;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>an easier method would be to download a full backup from the old server and restore it on the new server.This will automatically create all your email accounts on the new server with same passwords and copy all the old email files. 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