How to transfer Emails

If you want to move email from one email account to another OR from one email host to another, please follow these instructions:

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

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. If you are moving the email from one DreamHost account to another, then you can delete the email address you're moving from its current account, then add to the new account. Otherwise, skip to the next step.

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

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.