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

[Charlie Clark]

On 5 Apr 2023, at 22:39, Ken Pope wrote:

> Looking forward (sort of).  Had done a lot of searching to find a 
> company that was significantly cheaper than the wonderful Liquid Web 
> (I hate leaving them—they’re terrific) and Go Daddy seemed the 
> best of the very, very, very cheap companies that provide a 
> fully-managed dedicated server for 4 websites and my high-volume mail 
> accounts.

I'm slightly curious as to why you think you need fully-managed but 
dedicated servers just for websites and e-mail. Dedicated servers are 
normally for those of us who are happy to do at least some sysadmin 
work, or who need special software installing. Even then, it's very 
common to offload things like e-mail to external servers. E-mail isn't 
very resource or storage intensive, but running mail servers does now 
require fairly specialised knowledge and regular updates.

So, what do you need the dedicated servers for? Are you using 
specialised software on the websites? And what are your total e-mail 
storage requirements?

Finally, you must also consider that there **is** a minimum cost for 
doing business. If you can't afford this then it might be time to get 
out. Going with a provider just because they're cheap can quickly end up 
being quite expensive.

Charlie

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