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Old 14 Sep 2017, 04:53 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by monotreme_man View Post
thanks for some great information!

alas, none of these solutions will work if i try to maintain my old email address.
if i had joe@x.com, then i can't use these to migrate to the same joe@x.com at a new host.
even the fastmail stuff seems aimed at migrating joe@x.com to joe@y.com.

i guess i could migrate to joe@y.com, then after releasing the original joe@x.com,
rebuy x.com and then migrate to it. but that would leave joe@x.com not working for a few days.

i still can't believe how hard this. does no one care about changing their email?
or do they just get a gmail account and expect that will work forever?
Changing ESPs should never incur downtime. Configure accounts at new host, update DNS, migrate email data (in that order). We offer a free IMAP migration tool if it helps; else I'd recommend just dragging 'n dropping from Thunderbird.

Regards,
Pavin.
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