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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:26 pm    Post subject:
 
How do I find out please? My old host is a different company.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:59 pm    Post subject:
 
Honestly the simplest way would just be to ask them!

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 10:20 pm    Post subject:
 
Ah. Silly me.

I think I'll just drag them in from a separate, local Thunderbird account.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:39 am    Post subject:
 
NetHosted - Andrew wrote:
If your old host is us then that's no problem. If not then it might not be possible unless they are using maildir format to store mail.

I've since been looking around the old hosts user folder, and they have a 'mail' directory which contains a directory for each email account (.mailbox@domain_co_uk). This means they are using maildir, correct?

So if I simply change the domains nameservers to NetHosted, and copy the relevant directories to my new NetHosted account once the changes have propagated I think I should be okay...



Edit: the filenames of the messages contain the server name. E.g.:

Code:
1195462795.H476983P3059.mars.solardns.com


Does this mean copying the files from one server to another is not an option?
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:50 am    Post subject:
 
We had a client who had this dilemma previously and they ended up copying the new mail via IMAP, have you looked into this idea?

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:58 am    Post subject:
 
You mean copying the mail to an unrelated, intermediary email account via an email client, changing nameservers and finally copying "back" to the new account via an email client? This is my other option at the moment.
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:07 am    Post subject:
 
Yes I believe this is what they did. It might be possible for me to code a quick shell script to convert the hostnames if this method fails.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 11:09 am    Post subject:
 
Okay; I'll proceed with using the client method and let you know if I can't do it, but I can't see why that shouldn't be fine. Thanks Andrew.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 3:57 pm    Post subject:
 
I can now report that both methods seem to work fine.

I neglected to ensure that certain messages were available locally to copy back in, so replaced the server name in the file names and copied them into the relevant folder. The difference is they're marked as unread.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 21, 2007 4:01 pm    Post subject:
 
Glad to hear it worked

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