{"id":4065,"date":"2017-04-29T03:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T03:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2017\/04\/29\/transfer-email-vps\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T22:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T02:37:21","slug":"transfer-email-vps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/transfer-email-vps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Transfer Email to your VPS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Steps to Transfer Email using IMAP<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A typical task when moving from your old host to your new VPS server is the transfer of email accounts. The process of transferring emails can vary based on if your old account was also using cPanel. If your old host did use cPanel, then you can simply use the same steps for transferring a website from a cPanel host<\/a>. The transfer includes your emails, so you would not need to migrate them separately into your new server. The instructions in this tutorial explain the steps in transferring email from a non-cPanel host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First steps in the mail transfer process<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Your first step in the process is to create the email accounts on your new server that currently exists on your old server.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Go to your old host and get a list of all of the email accounts that you want to transfer.<\/li>
  2. Create the email account in the corresponding cPanel account on your server<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    If you want to keep your email running during the transfer, then you will want to do two things:<\/p>\n\n\n\n