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How to transfer email account

Posted October 23, 2013 2k views
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?
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pablo October 23, 2013
How many emails (approx.) are you talkin about?
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richard October 26, 2013
We're talking over 50,000 emails across 5 email accounts, most in archive folders.
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pablo October 27, 2013
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