How Can I Transfer Smtp E-mail From An Old Server To A New One?

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I have my e-mail account set up as SMTP. I need to transfer my existing e-mail messages from my current server (hosted by dreamhost.com) to a new server. Can I download my current messages and then upload them to the new server somehow? Or is there a way to make sure all current messages are on my local computer (I’m using Mac Mail as my e-mail application) and then connect to the new server without losing any messages?

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"How Can I Transfer Smtp E-mail From An Old Server To A New One?" was posted on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 3:37 pm.

4 Responses to “How Can I Transfer Smtp E-mail From An Old Server To A New One?”

Michirù(2009-06-30):

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is the de facto standard for e-mail transmission across the Internet. Formally SMTP is defined in RFC 821 (STD 10) as amended by RFC 1123 (STD 3) chapter 5. The protocol used today is also known as ESMTP and defined in RFC 2821.
SMTP is a relatively simple, text-based protocol, where one or more recipients of a message are specified (and in most cases verified to exist) and then the message text is transferred. It is quite easy to test a SMTP server using the telnet program (see below).
SMTP uses TCP port 25. To determine the SMTP server for a given domain name, the MX (Mail eXchange) DNS record is used.
SMTP started becoming widely used in the early 1980s. At the time, it was a complement to UUCP which was better suited to handle e-mail transfers between machines that were intermittently connected. SMTP, on the other hand, works best when both the sending and receiving machines are connected to the network all the time.
The article about sender rewriting contains technical background info about the early SMTP history and source routing before RFC 1123 (1989, obsoleted by RFC 2821 ).
Sendmail was one of the first (if not the first) mail transfer agents to implement SMTP. As of 2001 there are at least 50 programs that implement SMTP as a client (sender of messages) or a server (receiver of messages). Some other popular SMTP server programs include exim, Postfix, qmail, and Microsoft Exchange Server.
Since this protocol started out as purely ASCII text-based, it did not deal well with binary files. Standards such as MIME were developed to encode binary files for transfer through SMTP. Today, most SMTP servers support the 8BITMIME extension, permitting binary files to be transmitted almost as easily as plain text.
SMTP is a “push” protocol that does not allow one to “pull” messages from a remote server on demand. To do this a mail client must use POP3 or IMAP. Another SMTP server can trigger a delivery in SMTP using ETRN.
Miles Libbey(2009-06-30):

SMTP is actually the sending side. The info we need is: are you using POP or IMAP? If you open Mail.app and go to Preferences (Command-comma) > Accounts tab, you’ll see the Account type.
If its POP, then you already have all your messages saved on your computer.
If its IMAP, go to the Advanced subtab and make sur the ‘Keep copies of messages for offline viewing’ is set to All messages and their Attachments
auntb93a(2009-06-30):

I haven’t a clue how to proceed, but you’ve got two lengthy answers. Why not choose one and we can get this off the lists.
Bfrombig(2009-07-01):

No.
Now that I have answered, lets put it to a vote.