Email Migration From cPanel To cPanel #3min Step By Step : DomainRacer

Let's learn how to migrate email from old server to new server or from cPanel to cPanel (include all old emails).

OLD SERVER = Server that the email account is currently on and will soon be moved from
NEW SERVER = Server that you want to move the email account to

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Step 1: Backing up email directories:
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The first step in the email migration is to backup email directories present in the old server.

1) Login to cPanel interfaces for the account in question in the old server.

2) Open ‘File Manager’ under the section ‘Files’.

3) Go ‘Up One Level’ above public_html.

4) You can see the mail directory there. Enter into the directory.

5) Right-click on the directory and click on the option available to compress the directory.

6) Now, download the compressed file to your computer.

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Step 2: Restore email backups
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1) Login to the cPanel interface of the new server.

2) Create the email accounts just as you did in the old server. You can create email accounts from the ‘Email Accounts’ section under the ‘Mail’ category.

3) Open ‘File Manager’ under the section ‘Files’.

4) Go ‘Up One Level’ above public_html and you can see the mail directory there. Enter into the directory.

5) Upload the email backup file to the directory.

6) Unzip the backup file and then delete the zip file.

7) Open Webmail and configure it to display the new email folders.

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NOTE: Change DNS

If you followed all of the steps up to this point you should have all the files transferred, but you still need to point your DNS records to the NEW SERVER to have mail go there. When you update your records it could take up to 24 hours to take effect.

Finally, send a test email to the account. If that works to send an email from the account. You’re done!
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Congratulations, Now you know how to migrate email from old server to new server or from cPanel to cPanel.
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[UshaInformatique-kjvq]

Thank you. You have made the task very easy.

[OPS]

Thank you so much!

This is the answer to my questions w.r.t cPanel email transfers to new servers.
Very well explained and simple to follow.

[clintonl.]

Thank you so much for the quick and easy tutorial! Was able to migrate the domain successfully :)

[willhamilton]

Thanks a lot it helped me today I was in so much tension this video helped me out

[yafaiss]

Seriously you are such a savior.. awesome... thanks

[stevendrowe]

OMG, I didn't know about this. It's really that easy? Thank you.

Thanks a lot for this amazing tutorial, I will try on!. My new hosting support tell my that I used for this migration emails the IMAC email configuration to sincronizing both, on the old server to migrate all email to my new host, but I saw that it its more easy this way that you show us.

[azadeyvazov]

Thank you very much. This video helped me a lot

[manjunathan]

Thank you so much, it helps me a lot. :-)

[hedo]

Thank you for your video, very helpful!

[kanushkananayakkara]

Thanks for your video my problem solved ! Good job

[Saintqj]

Hi DomainRacer. Thank you for the video. I am however concerned about something. When I check the server space used by some of the emails (on email accounts in cpanel) I find that they are about 400MB each, but when I do the backup as you have indicated here, the cur and new as well as the maildir size dont even come close to the size used by the mail. Am I missing something?

[COPolaco]

Thanks for the video, can you please help me with the sent emails folder? it doesn't work for that particular folder.

[karex]

Hey! Thanks for your video. But still confused with " NOTE: Change DNS", how to do this? THANKS!

[gbengajames]

Thanks for this. I have been using this procedure for a while. But i have noticed for a while that this procedure does not back up sent emails. Why is this so? Thanks

[azharmohd]

This works for the same domain only right, if to different cpanel domain, do you have a guide?

[tengkuemirulismartengkurad]

Hi, thanks for the video. but this method still not backup the sent items folders. any other need to copy?

[coderflex]

Thank you for the video.
Is this work if the emails related with Gmail accounts ?

[malikihtisham]

Kindly make a video how to avoid emails going to spam from Domainracer webmail.I have purchased your resller plan overall hosting is really good but there is a issue in which busines mails are going into gmail spam kindly make a video on webmail spam issue Thanks

[christianlouisemoralde]

Is it okay that the cur files have a different domain on a new server?