Email migration services

There’s no real one-size-fits-all answer. Many determining factors can affect how long it takes. Such as:

• How large the mailbox is
• How many items the mailbox contains
• Speed of internet at mail hosts or available bandwidth per connection
• Available resource on the sending and receiving servers
• The number of mailboxes that are being migrated simultaneously

To give some indication, you could expect a singular 5Gb mailbox migration to be completed in 24 hours.

Conversely, 150 mailboxes might take between 2 – 4 weeks with migration and administration time.

The critical thing to consider is that while the email server migration is underway, you still have access to your email and mailbox in the usual way. We copy things over in the background. Once the items are mostly there (99% of it or more), we change you to the new mail server and then run a much shorter export migration to catch missed or delivered during the transition process. This makes for a seamless and transparent migration to all end-users with zero downtime.

Yes. Everything comes across as it is in the original mailbox. So if your inbox has many subfolders and those folders contain emails that you’ve previously sorted, it all comes across in the email server migration to match your original mailbox.

If you’re going from a business email service to another business email service, then yes.

If your email server migration is from a business email to a personal or business IMAP or POP3 mailbox, then the destination mailbox probably does not contain support for these items.

However, we can still take export backups of the data before you close the mailbox account. We can also import contacts into your email client address book, so you still have access.

To answer this question fully, we need to understand precisely what data you need to come across. There are many different email providers available, and we can help you with a tailor-made solution based on your requirements and budget. Contact us for more info and an answer to this question more specific to your needs.

Initially, we’ll need to discuss your current set-up and what you would like from a new service.

Once we’ve scoped out a solution, we’ll need admin access to any business email services you have set up currently or intend to move to. In some cases, we also need individuals’ email login credentials to the individual email accounts.

Not currently. But that may change in the future.

It’s a very competitive market, and there are many good service providers out there that we can recommend to suit your needs.

Some of the bigger players also offer additional services as part of a larger package. Look at Microsoft – Their office 365 essentials email hosting comes with access to the web version of MS Office. It’s an excellent service, at a low price point – which makes it incredibly competitive. Smaller businesses like us would struggle to compete against giants in this arena.

PagesThatConvert offers the email migration service because we frequently find that clients prefer to have their web hosting, domain name registration, and email hosting all under one roof when we do a site redesign or migration for them.

Often they are looking for a clean break away from the previous hosts and turn to us for advice. So we are positioned and ready to help with that scenario by assisting with the entire process of migrating everything away to new hosts if there is that requirement.

No, not at all! This service is open to everyone, even if you’re not already a client or have a website designed or migrated by us. So, contact us to discuss how we can help you.