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How to transfer email account

Posted on 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?



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

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

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