On 14 Apr 2023, at 12:58, Ken Pope wrote:
Thank you for the detailed, helpful instructions on how to move from
my current dedicated server to Fastmail while continuing to use
MailMate.
A very naive question: I’m currently using a domain name
(k...@kenpope.com) for my MailMate mail. I want to continue to use
that name when I move to Fastmail. If I open an account at Fastmail
with that domain name, won’t it close/end the account at my current
dedicated server *before* I can transfer my messages (i.e., I can’t
have both my current *and* my Fastmail accounts under the same
k...@kenpope.com, can I?)?
E-mails are really just files on the server, so it's perfectly possible
to move them between k...@kenpope.com and k...@fastmail.com.
You will **always** have a Fastmail user so the migration will normally:
* set up this user account
* migrate the e-mail to this account
* check everything is okay
* migrate the domain and set up the user
In MailMate you can follow this by:
* creating a new account for FastMail as "Ken New"
* checking everything once FastMail has imported the data and your
machine has synched
* migrate the domain
* edit account settings for "Ken" to point to the FastMail server
* edit account settings for "Ken New" to point to the old server, just
in case and rename it "Ken Old"
* close the old account
* once you sure everything is okay, delete "Ken Old"
But if I open a Fastmail account under a different name (e.g.,
“k...@fastmail.com”), how do I then change my account name at
Fastmail to k...@kenpope.com?
That's really just an alias once everything has been done. FastMail says
it has a migration service but the docs don't seem to be easy to find
but I'd check that first.
Charlie Clark
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