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I'm in the process of migrating to godaddy hosting from ATT hosting.

Currently we have everyone with IMAP connections to their inbox through thunderbird and iOS clients.

I can transfer easily using thunderbird by just drag and dropping emails into another account but it seems to take a long time. Also it seems to transfer more than I seem to have in terms of size of emails. Like as if was downloading them first then transferring to another server.

There is a USERS folder in my entire account and under each user seems to be their email content. This is seen when I go into website management tool that ATT hosting has. I was thinking there could be a way to just use some FTP tool to copy and paste the users folder into new host!?

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If you have shell access on both hosts, you might be able to use imapcopy or imapsync.

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Every time I initially connect thunderbird to our emails it tells me they are insecure. I don't recall exact wording of the error, but it lets me bypass without security. That's why I don't think I have shell access, I could be wrong. – Liger86 Nov 2 '11 at 17:07
For imapcopy etc., you definitely don't need shell access on any of the server machines, but you need a list of usernames and passwords on both servers for every user, and of course a computer where you can run imapcopy. – SvenW Nov 2 '11 at 17:18
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@Liger: The security error likely has to do with self-signed SSL certificates or something like that. – SvenW Nov 2 '11 at 17:19
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