I am looking into changing my web hosting provider, as I did not research pricing sufficiently before signing up for the one I am currently using, and I have developed a preference to avoid American companies since.
My domain is registered with a separate company, and my website is completely static and home made, so I think the move should be somewhat painless. I expect that it’s as easy as signing up for another service provider, and redirecting the domain to whatever information they provide. Please correct me if I’m wrong.
What I’m a little concerned about is my email at [email protected]. I’m assuming setting up a new address under the same name would be trivial under most hosting providers, but is there a good way of keeping my current emails available on the server? Alternatively, does anyone know of good options for making local backups of my inbox?
Last, if anyone has recommendations for somewhat affordable, green & European hosting providers, it would be much appreciated. I guess Hetzner is an option, but I wouldn’t mind supporting a slightly smaller company if I can.
Thanks!
Use a mail client.
Connect to both providers with the mail client.
Update your mx records. (And spf and dkim and dmarc)
Copy or move your emails to the new provider using the email client.
I was looking up some guides to import and export mail to/from servers using Thunderbird, but the only relevant thing I could find suggested using an add-on that doesn’t seem to exist any more. :/
The suggestion of @[email protected] seems to be working great though - at least it is running on my computer, I guess I’ll see when it’s done if it worked or not. :)
Thank you!
You don’t need to import or export, just move the messages between the mailboxes. I’ve done it with outlook but thunderbird would probably be the same.