Transfer of old saved emails from my old provider
Hi,
had a quick search but couldnt quite see what I was looking for, so apoligies if this has been asked before.
I am an new user to Plusnet, just signed up two days ago and waiting for stuff to transfer and become active.
My current provider is BT and I have quite a few emails that I would like to keep for reference etc. does anyone know if there is a way to either transfer them to my my plusnet account so I still have access to them or a way of saving them at all?
don't fancy the idea of going into each one and forwarding them onto myself at the new email address.
thanks
had a quick search but couldnt quite see what I was looking for, so apoligies if this has been asked before.
I am an new user to Plusnet, just signed up two days ago and waiting for stuff to transfer and become active.
My current provider is BT and I have quite a few emails that I would like to keep for reference etc. does anyone know if there is a way to either transfer them to my my plusnet account so I still have access to them or a way of saving them at all?
don't fancy the idea of going into each one and forwarding them onto myself at the new email address.
thanks
Hi, and welcome...
You'll be able to retrieve your BT Inbox onto your PC if you setup your email client for POP3 delivery instead of IMAP. This will mean that the emails will reside on your local machine. Other solutions will need to be used if you want a copy of your Sent mail as well unfortunately.
Moving ISPs is the ideal opportunity to look at buying yourself a domain name and making use of a 3rd party email provider - No more being tied to ISP email
Hope the transfer goes smoothly...
You'll be able to retrieve your BT Inbox onto your PC if you setup your email client for POP3 delivery instead of IMAP. This will mean that the emails will reside on your local machine. Other solutions will need to be used if you want a copy of your Sent mail as well unfortunately.
Moving ISPs is the ideal opportunity to look at buying yourself a domain name and making use of a 3rd party email provider - No more being tied to ISP email
Hope the transfer goes smoothly...
erm...............No idea 
I thought it might be!
Now that we know you use webmail and can see your level of expertise (no offence intended), perhaps someone will be able to help you using very simple terminology!
Now that we know you use webmail and can see your level of expertise (no offence intended), perhaps someone will be able to help you using very simple terminology!
From your comments, I suspect the "easy" way is going to be difficult - webmail doesn't usually have the facility to do what you want, though you can often set up automatic forwarding of new e-mails.
If you specify your operating system (Windows 7 etc.), there is probably someone who can walk you through setting up a suitable client (live mail?) and 2 IMAP accounts to make the transfer easy - and for future use if you so choose (like webmail, IMAP leaves the messages on the server). However, as I implied, you will use a lot of allowance if you are not on unlimited and/or time if not on a fast connection (you could start the transfer at midnight and leave it running, of course
).
Phil
If you specify your operating system (Windows 7 etc.), there is probably someone who can walk you through setting up a suitable client (live mail?) and 2 IMAP accounts to make the transfer easy - and for future use if you so choose (like webmail, IMAP leaves the messages on the server). However, as I implied, you will use a lot of allowance if you are not on unlimited and/or time if not on a fast connection (you could start the transfer at midnight and leave it running, of course
).Phil
