September 23, 2020
2min Read
Paulius Z.
If you’re already comfortable with our email hosting services, you might want to consider moving your messages from your old email account to Hostinger.
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In this guide, we’ll go through each step of migrating an existing email account to Hostinger.
First, you need an email client to transfer your old account messages to the new one.
An email client is a desktop application that lets you manage multiple mailboxes simultaneously. You may already have one pre-installed on your computer – for example, Apple Mail for macOS or the Mail and Calendar app for Windows.
However, there are other alternatives you can use:
Once you’ve made your choice, download and install the application. In this article, we’ll be using Thunderbird as an example.
Before using the client, sign in to your Hostinger account to create a new email address:
For more information about mail protocols and their use, you can read our article here. Now, open up the email client and follow the instructions below.
NOTE: While we are using Thunderbird for this example, the overall process of setting up an email account is similar for all email clients.
Here’s how to transfer your messages between each account:
If the email sizes are rather large and the transfer process takes too much time, the IMAP connection can time out. To mitigate this, you can move the messages into smaller batches.
Congratulations, you have successfully moved email messages from your old account to Hostinger.
We hope this article has been helpful. Let us know if you have any further questions.
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