{"id":902,"date":"2012-03-01T16:16:12","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2012\/03\/01\/what-you-need-to-know-about-your-email-when-transferring-your-website\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T03:46:50","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-your-email-when-transferring-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/what-you-need-to-know-about-your-email-when-transferring-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"What you need to know about your email when transferring your website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you transfer your website to InMotion Hosting, you will need to make sure that any email clients you may use such as MS Office Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Mac Mail are configured correctly. Also, you&#8217;ll need to understand the basics of propagation so you know where your email will be going.<\/p>\n<h2>Making Sure You Don&#8217;t Miss any Emails<\/h2>\n<p>In Step 4 of the <a href=\"\/support\/\">Website Transfer Checklist<\/a>, you will be <a href=\"\/support\/website\/different-version-of-php-mysql\/\">pointing your domain&#8217;s Nameservers<\/a>. One important thing to understand is that for 4-24 hours after that step, your email may not work as expected in your email client due to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2011\/08\/29\/domain-names-dns-changes\/\">DNS propagation<\/a>. Some email may still be sent to your previous host while other email is delivered to your account here.<\/p>\n<p>You have two options to make sure you get all of your emails:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Set up an <a href=\"\/support\/email\/set-up-email-forwarder\/\">email forwarder<\/a> to a third party email address (e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail, etc.). Be sure to remove the forwarder once DNS has propagated.<\/li>\n<li>Use <a href=\"\/support\/email\/login-to-webmail\/\">webmail <\/a>at both the previous host and on your new account here to check emails.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Email Client Settings<\/h2>\n<p>Once DNS has propagated, follow the steps below to check your current email client settings so you can begin checking your email at InMotion Hosting.<\/p>\n<ol class=\"article_list\">\n<li><strong>Viewing your email client&#8217;s current settings.<\/strong>The steps needed for viewing your email client&#8217;s settings vary per email client. Please check your specific email client&#8217;s documentation to find out how to see the settings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Adjust email account settings if needed<\/strong><br \/>\n<table class=\"article_table\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<th>Incoming and Outgoing Mail Servers<\/th>\n<td>mail.example.com<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>User name<\/th>\n<td>Full email address<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<th>Password<\/th>\n<td>New password set when you <a href=\"\/support\/email\/creating-email-account\/\">created the email account<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you transfer your website to InMotion Hosting, you will need to make sure that any email clients you may use such as MS Office Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird, or Mac Mail are configured correctly. Also, you&#8217;ll need to understand the basics of propagation so you know where your email will be going. Making Sure You<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/email\/what-you-need-to-know-about-your-email-when-transferring-your-website\/\"> Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56983,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,4288],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-email","category-website"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What you need to know about your email when transferring your website | InMotion Hosting<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In this article we&#039;ll explain why you need to update your email client&#039;s settings when transferring your 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