How do you configure existing Emails for a New Host?

Posted by dwspriya on May 14th, 2011

When you decide to change your host, to move the hosting service to the new host environment, you must think of the same email to be configured as it was. The emails used to be configured on to the new server used by the new host. The foremost requirement is that the email accounts should work effectively as always. The email data should move to the same folder in the new server. The email messages and the archived information should reappear on the new configurations. The email account owner has to provide the data folder to the new hosting provider. Along with the massage data files, you need to provide the contacts (email addresses you usually stored). The calendar, to do list and other feature data could be moved to the new hosting. With the list of email addresses, other data the hosting provider can configure and provide you’re the credentials to the user.

There are different email clients preferred by the users. As common configuration you should have the specific information of e-mail account that to be configured.

• Full e-mail address and the type of e-mail account: POP3, IMAP or HTTP.
• User name and password.
• The SMTP and POP3 server name or address.
• Secure Password Authentication (SPA)
• The port number for SMTP.
• For secured site, SSL is required.
• POP3 port number.
• Outgoing e-mail server require authentication

In fact, the details credentials and data will be reset while configuring the emails at the server of new host. The same configuration is asked by the email account holder to ensure the account has not lost while transferring to new host web server. Once the email configured the emails can be verified at the mail clients. It will show the current emails, older mails and the archived emails. The changing host should not affect to your email communications.

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