I wanted this back up and migration to run continuously on a stable connection. Here’s the thing, there were a lot of emails on our server. I wanted to not only migrate my current emails, but back them all up as well, in case something went horribly wrong.
If you did the proper research ahead of time, they should trust you with this transition, but it is up to you to keep them at ease and make sure that they are ok with your plan moving forward. That being said, even with the proper transparency, be sure to listen to your users and address their concerns.
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As a good measure, I linked them to the page where they can change their passwords before they share it with me, so if their password is one they use a lot, they can change it to something they’re more comfortable sharing. Since I am my users’ everyday ‘IT guy’, they trust me and didn’t worry about this point. In order to back up and migrate my users’ email accounts to a new host, I need to ask them to give up their privacy temporarily. That last point is a point of contention. I sent a letter to all of the active users on the domain stating that 1) I plan to migrate our email provider and why, 2) to which provider and why and any differences in services they should expect, 3) estimated timeline, and 4) I need their email passwords. I am a big believer in transparency, and especially with today’s internet climate, more transparency is better. As for a registrar, I default to Namecheap as I already have quite a few domains registered there and like their service. I spent quite a bit of time looking through these options, and ironically ended up picking a host that wasn’t even on the list, Migadu. That One Privacy Site has a great article on what to look for in email providers, along with a Simple Email Comparison chart. Everyone has their own priorities in what they’re looking for for me it was privacy, management, and support. This involved some heavy research on my end, because you don’t want to have to do this migration more than once. Decisions, decisions, decisionsįirst thing’s first is you have to find the new registrar and email provider you want to migrate to. Might as well knock everything out at once and be in good shape for the next while so that I can sleep well at night without worry. It also happens that my domain was registered through the same email provider host and I wanted to transfer that over to my everyday registrar, Namecheap. migrate all of my current emails and folders.end up on a provider that I trust long term and,.And I knew that this is going to be a tricky and intricate operation.
I knew I needed to migrate email providers. They were ok at what they did, but they specialized in assisted hosting services and email was clearly an afterthought, let alone any privacy or scalability concerns. I registered my domain and set up email accounts there long before I was thinking about privacy concerns or shopping for competitors. Recently I realized that my email host is not great. That’s why it’s imperative for your email provider to be reliable, resilient, and especially in today’s world, trust-worthy. Whether you like it or not, that is the most reliable and consistent way for people to get in touch with you, and it’s not going away anytime soon ( sorry, Slack).
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Email is the focal point of our professional online identities.
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