migrating inboxes to new host

[jAQUAN]

So I need to save a client from hosting hell. Thing is they've got existing inboxes with stored messages. I'd like to make it seemless as possible but I can't really think of a way to do that without requiring some work per employee. Does anyone have experience doing this for POP accounts?

It's kinda urgent so please speak up.

[gerbick]

You could do one of two things... migrate MBOX to MBOX via CPanel - it's buried from what I remember, or try to rsync it.

In both cases, I've had help from the host to make sure I had access to all of the methods I needed. Doesn't sound like that's going to be an option here.

I'll ask around though. There was a guide I ran across that was pretty definite, but it was not found by regular means.

[jAQUAN]

Yeah sounds like I'm going to need tech-support on one if not both ends. I had another client add his POP to his gmail and sync so he at least had a back up but I don't want to make an entire staff do that.

[asheep_uk]

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[Loyal Rogue]

Any decent host will do the entire cpanel to cpanel transfer for you and it should cost less than $5.
It's been a while since I had to do one for a client but I believe Dathorn.com, the company I have my reseller accounts with, charged me half a buck to do the whole transfer.

If I'm not mistaken, and both servers are using cpanel you can just do a complete backup zip of the entire account and restore it at the new host yourself.

[jAQUAN]

it's going to mediatemple who does not use cpanel. Their techs are telling me it's not possible.