Email transfer

i'm moving from ehost pros to oneworldhosting..how can i take my email off the old mail server and put it onto the new one so that its accessible via webmail and such.

thanks!!

also, any good cheap/free spam filters? oneworld doesn't seem to do a great job with that. thanks!

a cheap/free spam filter is as easy as your client...what kind of email account(s) are these/they? I use the junk mail controls in Thunderbird and they work great with IMAP and move spam marked messages to appropriate folders. I'm sure the pop3 account in Thunderbird work as well.

Are the companies you mentioned you're moving from, do they house the mail or do you have root/shell access to the servers (are they virtual/dedicated servers)?

they are pop3..thanks i'll look into thunderbird

as far as the hosts, i don't know much about virtual vs. dedicated servers. i can tell you that when i go into the mail folder, they look different. one has emails individually stored in a /cur folder while the other just has a text doc containing the email info

Well, with POP3 unless you have your client save a copy of the messages on the server, there shouldn't be anything on there. If you know what programs that the pop3 server's are, that would help to know if you can transfer them from one server to the other. Qmail and courier both use a Maildir format that be read by either program. /cur most likely is cur that is a subdir of Maildir (possibly). When I've done mailserver cutovers, I just tar the entire maildir's and the deflate them on the new server.

old server - one file per address in the domain-mail folder

new server - individual files in the cur folder

how can i convert it to make this work?