{"id":128,"date":"2019-12-10T11:48:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-10T10:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/?post_type=ht_kb&p=128"},"modified":"2020-02-27T14:36:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T13:36:04","slug":"secure-switch-from-pop-to-imap","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/kb\/secure-switch-from-pop-to-imap\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure switch from POP to IMAP"},"content":{"rendered":"

To switch from POP to IMAP, it is best to go through the following steps to do so in a secure manner, without losing your current e-mails.<\/span><\/p>\n

IMAP or POP?\u00a0<\/span>Discover the pros and cons of POP and IMAP<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

From POP to IMAP in 5 steps<\/span><\/h2>\n
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  1. Change your existing POP settings so that the messages are stored on the server indefinitely. For the most used e-mail programs (Outlook, Apple Mail, iOS, Android) we explain this in our <\/span>configuration manuals for Basic mailboxes<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Now add a new account to your mail program, this time with an IMAP configuration. <\/span><\/span>This info can also be found in the\u00a0 <\/span>configuration manuals for Basic mailboxes<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. As soon as your new IMAP mailbox is active, you move all your e-mails from your POP mailbox to your IMAP mailbox. You do this best for every folder: Inbox, sent mails, archives … Transferring all those emails can take a while. Therefore, leave your computer on at night.<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Check via webmail whether all your mails are present. If that is the case, the process is complete.<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. If necessary, remove the POP mailbox from your mail program.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    \r\n \t\t\tDo you use Outlook? Follow these 4 steps<\/span> \t\t\t \t\t\t\t

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    1. Export the account to a .PST file<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
    2. Remove the pop3 account from the mail client<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Re-add the account as an IMAP account<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n
    4. Import the .PST file that you have just created<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      \t\t\t\t<\/p>\r\n \t\t\t \t\t\t\r\n \t\t<\/div>\r\n \t\t<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      To switch from POP to IMAP, it is best to go through the following steps to do so in a secure manner, without losing your current e-mails. IMAP or POP?\u00a0Discover the pros and cons of POP and IMAP From POP to IMAP in 5 steps Change your existing POP settings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[21,10],"ht-kb-tag":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/128"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":947,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/128\/revisions\/947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyhost.be\/en\/help\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}