Admittedly I have very little IT training. We were recently set up with a new web hosting company that has us on the Virtualmin platform. I have three email related problems/questions:
1) We have new webmail interface for everyone through the new server. Is there a way to import all of the messages from the old server? The old messages are stored through a GoDaddy site and we can still access them. I know we can pull them since I can get them to download to Outlook. I would like to have them incorporated into the new webmail.
2) Is there a way to import an address book of contacts? I can download a CSV file from the GoDaddy webmail service but I haven't seen a way to import it.
3) I saw this addressed in another post, but I didn't follow it. It looks like some of our emails from certain addresses (example of all emails from @charleston.k12.sc.us) aren't making it through. They're not even getting held up in the spam folder.
Any help would be great. Especially if the help is really dumbed down.
Thanks, Adam
Hi Adam,
1) We have new webmail interface for everyone through the new server. Is there a way to import all of the messages from the old server?
There's some third party tools that can help with that particular problem.
I've had a lot of success using imapsync, which you can download here:
http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/
The docs for it are in the README file on that site:
http://www.linux-france.org/prj/imapsync/README
2) Is there a way to import an address book of contacts? I can download a CSV file from the GoDaddy webmail service but I haven't seen a way to import it.
That'll be dependent on the particular Webmail program you're looking to use... and you'd need to copy each address book into each account. If you're using Usermin -- unfortunately, I don't see a way to mass-import addresses.
3) I saw this addressed in another post, but I didn't follow it. It looks like some of our emails from certain addresses (example of all emails from @charleston.k12.sc.us) aren't making it through. They're not even getting held up in the spam folder.
Hrm, are you saying that people you're sending email to on other servers aren't receiving it? Or are you saying that the users on your system are having trouble receiving some email from the outside?
In either case, you'll want to look in the email logs for additional clues -- starting with /var/log/maillog or /var/log/mail.log. You should be able to use that to determine where the email is going, and whether it's being received.
-Eric