Marin Todorov

So my mail server migration to an EU based mail provider went more or less as expected 🤕

I asked on Mastodon and most answers pointed me to the Berlin-based mailbox.org

I've been trying for a week to move my mail to them but the settings page said more or less, we can't tell you how to migrate to our service - figure it out yourself 🤷🏽‍♂️

So, today I took 20min and moved to a non-EU based mail service in 🇨🇭 where everything was streamlined and clear.

Mar 13 at 2:19pmWeb
Show threadobrhoffMar 13

@icanzilb Weird. With IMAP its super easy to transfer. Last time I used imapsync. Sound trivial to build something like this into an service.

https://github.com/imapsync/imapsync

GitHub - imapsync/imapsync: Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two others are POP3 and HTTP with webmails, webmails are often tied to an IMAP server. Upstream website is

Imapsync is an IMAP transfers tool. The purpose of imapsync is to migrate IMAP accounts or to backup IMAP accounts. IMAP is one of the three current standard protocols to access mailboxes, the two ...

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Show threadMarin TodorovMar 13
@obrhoff no no, not even move the emails, just enabling the domain transfer. It feels like I dodged a bullet, now on migadu.com and they have total no frills ui but super easy, still need to config a few things but it seems like they know what they're doing so far
Show threadJanMar 13
@icanzilb when I migrated some years ago they had a service where they would migrate your mails for 1-2€ per account (from other providers).
Seems they now only support migration via Thunderbird https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/account/migrate-from-gmail/
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Show threadJanMar 13
@icanzilb no, it's still there.
In settings pretty much at the bottom.
Show threadMarin TodorovMar 13
@jandamm I agree that's there, but I got stuck on redirecting the domain, not moving the messages 🫠
Show threadJanMar 13

@icanzilb have you followed this guide?

https://kb.mailbox.org/en/private/custom-domains/using-emails-with-a-custom-domain/

I found their guides hard to find but not too hard to understand.

Using e-mails with a custom domain | Knowledge Base: Knowledge and help | mailbox

These instructions are intended for our private customers only. If you have a Business account, please follow the instructions in this article: mailbox Business - getting started.

Show threadMarin TodorovMar 14
@jandamm yup, that's it :) maybe I'm not clever enough to follow it, because I was stuck on this page for days and when I gave up and followed migadu's guide it took about 20 min to completely migrate