How to transfer Emails

If you have an emails and you want to transfer those emails to another email account or to the same email account that you are just transferring you will want to follow these steps.

1. You will need to use an email client like Outlook or the free Thunderbird program. Go ahead and open/install it to get ready for step #2

2. Go ahead and setup your email account and select to use a POP or POP3 connection. This method of connection will download the actual emails to your computer so that the emails are stored locally instead of on the server. Go ahead and connect and download all of your emails to your computer

(note: if you have folders that you can not see when you connect to the email account using a POP connection this is because those folders are IMAP folders and can not be viewed by a POP connection, the solution for this is to login to your email account via your Webmail.domain.com address and move all the emails in these folders into the inbox, then continue to download them)

3. Once you have downloaded all of the emails onto your computer, you will want to move all of the emails into a folder that you create, call it what ever you like.

4. Once you have moved all of the emails into a newly created folder on your email program on your computer, make sure you have all of the email you need, check to make sure the email account in webmail is empty, etc. then you can delete the email or domain is you are moving this domain/email to another account within the Dreamhost system

5. Once you have recreated the email address on the new account, you will edit your email connection settings on your email program on your computer to connect to this new email account via IMAP

(note: IMAP and POP use the same login info, you just need to change the connection type)

6. Once the email program is connected to the new email account you created you can simply move the emails that you stored in that new folder you created into the inbox folder... the IMAP connection will then synchronize your email programs inbox with the inbox of the email account and that is it, your emails are now transfered to the new email account. You can then organize your emails into separate folders if you wish.