Plesk to cPanel Migration if you *don't* have SSH access

eugenevdm.host

• June 02, 2022 05:26

Hi there, It appears the WHM transfer tool is Plesk compatible. However, the WHM transfer tool relies on SSH which most shared hosts won't allow or open. Can you tell me is there a way to do a Plesk migration if I don't have SSH to the source host?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 02, 2022 13:15

  Hey there! There isn't a way to use the automated Transfer Tool system without SSH. You'd need to manually move the data, and we do have a guide to performing this work here:

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  eugenevdm.host

  • June 02, 2022 16:40

  Hi @cPRex, and thanks so much for the reply. The article you post is somewhat useful and now leads to a new set of questions and two comments. First comment: - The article fails to mention IMAPSYNC. The article seems mostly focused on raw file based migrations which is useful, but nevertheless, what if it's a foreign format? *** - Does anyone in the community know if Plesk uses Mbox or Maildir format, and if actually copying these directories across will mean the users will "just show" in WHM? - Any idea what to do with passwords? Does Plesk encryption match WHM encryption? Surely it must, if the Transfer Tool with SSH works. But how to copy those? We have 100 mailboxes to migrate and asking our client to share 100 passwords for IMAPSYNC sounds a little bit unprofessional. *** Last comment: I find it slightly ironic that WHM doesn't have a better Plesk import, since both are owned by the same parent? Or maybe I'm missing something?

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 02, 2022 17:02

  IMAPSYNC is a great tool, but it's not something that's made by cPanel so we don't talk about it there. We do have a support article about it here:

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  eugenevdm.host

  • June 02, 2022 17:06

  Just had a thought - get a

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • June 02, 2022 17:08

  That would work too!

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