How to transfer email account

Posted October 23, 2013

I have my email accounts on a domain hosted by hostmonster and want to move everything over, including emails, to a new virtual server on DigitalOcean. How can this be done? What is the easiest most reliable steps?

richard

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pablo • October 27, 2013

Check out <a href=“https://www.digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-use-duplicity-with-gpg-to-securely-automate-backups-on-ubuntu”>How To Use Duplicity with GPG to Securely Automate Backups on Ubuntu</a>.

richard • October 26, 2013

We’re talking over 50,000 emails across 5 email accounts, most in archive folders.

pablo • October 23, 2013

How many emails (approx.) are you talkin about?