[MlMt] moving my mail from one server to another—will my IMAP mailboxes & their contents survive the move?

[Bill Cole]

On 2023-04-04 at 16:20:21 UTC-0400 (Tue, 04 Apr 2023 16:20:21 -0400)
Ken Pope <mailmate at lists.freron.com>
is rumored to have said:

> My mail currently resides on a dedicated server managed by company X.  
> To save money, I’m considering transferring my domains, mail, and 
> websites from X to a dedicated server managed by company Y.
>
> Will all the many, *many* IMAP mailboxes that MailMate has created for 
> me disappear in the move, or will they (if the move goes well) wind up 
> on the new server with their contents intact?

If you do it right, you can move everything.

Moving an email collection from one IMAP server to another can be as 
simple as dragging messages from one account to another in MM.


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