This question is about keeping email during a server move, where the clients are Linux (me) and Mac (my wife) using IMAP.
I receive email at
[email protected] using a webmail service that my hosting company (1and1) provides. I read it via IMAP in evolution, so I should have copies of all the emails on my local machine.
I have just moved mydomain.com from one type of account
to another, and the hosting company don't move my existing email on the server when I do this - I assume they move my account
to a different mailserver, and don't choose
to provide a
migration path for the email
to move too (yes, this is annoying).
Before migrating, I backed up Evolution (File - Backup settings) and did a spot-check in the evolution-backup.tar.gz file
to be sure that my mail was in there. After migrating, I restored (File - Restore settings) and had hoped that I would see all my mail again. Unfortunately, Evolution just shows me new mail sent
to the account, not the old mail.
Is there a way
to get the old mail back in the mailserver, or at least displaying in Evolution, as it was before the move? If not, can I read it in some convenient way, e.g. in Evolution offline or in a text file (then I can pick the mails I really want
to keep and resend them
to myself)?
Also, I am about
to do a similar move for my wife's domain,
[email protected]. She reads her mail on a Mac using IMAP
to Apple Mail. Is there anything I can do
to make the move smooth for her? (I have backed up [her user]/Library/Mail already, but not sure what
to do once the move is done.)
