Migrate email to a different domain name?

Lisaweb

• April 05, 2018 18:55

We need to move our email to a completely different domain name. (I've searched for an answer to this, but can only find info on how to move email to a server with the SAME domain name.) My plan is to re-create all the email accounts on the new domain, and then copy over everything under each of their respective old email folders. Example: Copy everything under the old domain email folder: /mail/my-domain.NET/email-account-name and paste it into the new domain folder: /mail/my-domain.COM/email-account-name Will my plan work? If not, is there another way to do it? Thanks!

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  24x7server

  • April 06, 2018 06:08

  Hi, What you can do is clone the complete account, alter it with new domain name, and restore it.. The other way is that you can sync the mails folder and then later on rename the mail boxes inside the mail directory..

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  cPanelLauren

  • April 06, 2018 12:00

  Hi @Lisaweb Is moving a requirement? I ask this only because you can change the primary domain name of the account without moving everything. Our documentation here goes over what can be done:

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  keat63

  • April 06, 2018 12:26

  I've done something similar. FTP each individual mail folder off the old server and in to the new one. You'll need to access the root folder of your domain, and not the public_html folder. When in the root, you'll find the individual mailboxes in the mail folder. I guess if you recreate the email accounts exactly the same, it should make it pretty easy for you. eg: bill.smith remains bill.smith and not billsmith

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  Lisaweb

  • April 07, 2018 15:13

  Hi, What you can do is clone the complete account, alter it with new domain name, and restore it..

  
  This seems like it would work just perfect for me! Does anyone know the best way to clone an account? Because what I can see doing, is cloning the old domain, then renaming the cloned domain to the new domain name. Thanks for any advice you can offer on a Saturday....

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  tmcstom

  • April 08, 2018 04:42

  Basically you would do this 1. Create a backup of the source account 2. Change the primary domain/username of the source account 3. Restore the backup of the source account Though you may run into issues with addon/parked domains during the restore so I would remove those from the source account after changing the primary domain. Then when you restore the backup it should restore those addon/parked domains without issue.

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  jainvikas8

  • May 14, 2020 17:34

  I'm in a similar situation where: * Have a FULL website backup including e-mails of mydomain.net * mydomain.net domain is not available anymore and I have mydomain.com * I want to access e-mail accounts (all e-mails) from mydomain.net So can I: * create similar e-mail accounts on (/mail/mydomain.com/billsmith) * Copy the folders from /mail/mydomain.net to /mail/mydomain.com Will it work? Therefore can use an e-mail client like RoundCube to access e-mail messages.

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