Transferring email account

We are trensferring data from a Tiger iMac to a newer iMac with Snow Leopard, and the concern is that we can't remember what email password was used. Here's the question: if we use Migration Assist to transfer data, will it transfer the data and password into the new computer's email account?

Yes it should if you transfer that whole User.
But you can find the eMail Password(s) in Keychain Access.

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Transferring email accounts

Hello, I have seen many replies and have noticed that some of you are familiar with Earthlink. I have a question. Earthlink is my ISP and I am unable to transfer account information from another email application to mac mail. I keep receiving an error message. I currently have earthlink email. I am using the correct information on each screen. I also have checked the port. I have been trying for a week now, and I have several accounts that I need access to at home. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The error message:
The SMTP server “smtpauth.earthlink.net:[email protected]” is not responding. Check your network connection and that you entered the correct information in the “Outgoing Mail Server” field. If it still doesn’t respond, the server might be temporarily unavailable.
If you continue, you may not be able to send any mail.

Hi Laurie,
I'll be able to help you get your email address switched over. Send me in your details using the "Contact The Mods" link found in my profile.
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Transfering Email Account Settings to IMail?

Is there an easy way to transfer "outlook 2007" Email Account settings to IMail? I have roughly 10 email accounts, and rather than putting them all in by hand, I would rather do it automatically if there is a way... I have MobileMe as well, if that helps...

What's IMail?
There are some third-party outlook exporters that may work. Search MacUpdate or VersionTracker. Something like Outlook2Mac or O2M. I can't remember what it is called.
Another option is to use Thunderbird on the PC which I understand can be exported to a Mail readable format--that may just be the contacts, though.

Transferring email addresses from one account to another

I'm not sure if this is a good place to post this but after spending a good bit of time on the phone with FiOS customer service and technical support I just feel like venting my frustrations and hope that maybe someone could give me a valid explanation of why this cannot be done.
To give a brief (hopefully) summary of what's going on...
My wife and I are currently in the process of moving from Florida to Maryland because of the current job market and economy situation. As always...the moving process has been a "blast". For at least a few months we will be "between" homes and will be staying with friends. Because of this we had to cancel our FiOS service (which I did last week and it will be shutting off sometime today). Since we've been very please with the actual service FiOS provides we have (or maybe I should say "had") every intention of signing back up with Verizon once we're in a new home in the Maryland area.
So here's where the trouble comes into play...I contacted Verizon to see if it would be possible to somehow transfer our existing Verizon.net email addresses from our account to my friend's account (the person I'm staying with). You would've thought I was asking for a year's worth fo free service. Initially I was told by customer service that this can't be done. They explained that an email address is like a phone number and two separate accounts cannot have the same email address. Thanks for the newsflash! I explained again that what I wanted to do was move my email addresses so they would now be associated with my friends account. This didn't seem like such a horrible request considering my friend pays for FiOS service and with that gets 9 available email addresses....and was only using 2 of them. She ultimately just told me it was something that couldn't be done. But she did inform me of the "Verizon Your Domain" service that would allow current FiOS subscribers to associate their Verizon.net email account with a new domain name that you create. It would cost $20 per year and would allow you to keep your Verizon.net email if you canceled FiOS service. This sounded like an ok option.
But still -- I was curious why I couldn't transfer email addresses. So I then contacted technical support. This time it was explained to me that an email address was like a social security #. It couldn't just be given to another person. Great analogies in use at Verizon....I give them that. I told the guy I was a fellow "techie" and asked him for a more detailed explanation. That's when it got good. That's what killed me. He spent all this time talking about ACL's and routing and how email addresses couldn't be moved because "you're talking about 2 million addresses". Long and short he was trying to say the Verizon email system was just too complex. Finally I told him that it had to be something that could be done....and his exact words were "well sure it can be done...but we're not going to do it if you're not paying for a service". Wow! Great response! I've been a paying customer of FiOS for about two years. I've had some form of service with Verizon for about 15 years (from phone service to mobile service with V-Wireless). I fully understand that I'm no longer paying for FiOS service. But my friend is. And he has 7 email accounts he's not using. So why couldn't they be moved? Because the system is too complex? Give me a break. Like this guy finally admitted...it boils down to money.
Finally I gave up. I told my wife that we'd just have to deal with switching to a new email address. Life will move on. She wanted to try the "Verizon Your Domain" option though. She started doing the process online...had some questions....and decided to call customer service. She got transferred around to three different people...the last of which told her "you need to call a different department" and then CLICK.
Great, great job Verizon. All I ask is if someone could give me some sort of response that makes sense. If you just don't want to offer the transfer option then tell me.
I expect to be in a new home within a month or two. And suddenly Comcast is looking very good.

spacedebris wrote:
Well, CS was right when they said that Verizon cannot transfer your email to another account. In order to do that they would have to overwrite the email of your friend ( I dont think your friend would apreciate that ). This is due to a limitation on the email system.
However, you may have another option. If you are going to be getting Verizon service again in the realitivly near future (4-8 weeks or so), Then after your acount is closed, contact tech support. If you get the right agent they will "enable" your email. That way you can continue to use it even though you dont have service any more. Now they cant do this for long but for temporary it can be done. Then once you get your service back, they can then move your existing email to your new account. (this can now be done as they will overwrite your new email with your old).
Now if your going to be without Verizon service for more than a couple months, you may be out of luck but this is one option
umm, oh bhoy!
In fact, a "repoint" of an email address CAN be completed onto another account AND it does not overwrite anything on the receiving account.    Each acount, whether its a FiOS account or a copper account, has an account number. The email address is assigned to the account number.    The email address can be "repointed" from one account to another, as an 'add-on' to the new account, then it can be 'repointed' back to another account later.    HOWEVER, the contract does say that you must have a valid account. AND, Verizon cannot (no company can) allow you to manipulate someone else's account.
as to the "after your acount is closed, contact tech support. If you get the right agent they will "enable" your email", well, the fact is that the account has to be provisioned to an address. So, though I have come accross accounts that seemed to still be "on" after the listed close date, it was not something that verizon's tier 1 tech support can effect (that's who you get on the phone when you call tech support) (note that 'sales' could not do this for you, either)   So good luck with that.
What happens is that Verizon will not allow anyone to take your email addresses for at least 6 months.
Before you cancelled you may have had an option to have a notice auto-replied to any email that gets sent to your email address, for a limited amount of time, like they can do with a telephone number ("this number has been changed to . . . . . ") that "this email address is temporarily suspended, or something. . . . I said MAY have had the opportunity. .. .   but if it was me, I would get to where you are going and make sure they have Verizon internet account already   and have them call verizon tech support (so they can verify their account info) with you standing there so that you can verify your old account info and immediately and plainly ask if you can have an email "repoint" done for you.
my .02
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Having transferred songs from my old mac to my new Macbook I cannot authorise them because my old Apple ID is an obsolete email account. I cannot retrieve messages from it so cannot change password.

Having transferred songs from my old mac to my new Macbook I cannot authorise them because my old Apple ID is an obsolete email account. I cannot retrieve messages from the email account it so cannot recieve a password change notification. The answers I give to security question is rejected. Help!

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Email accounts partly transferred.

I had 5 email accounts and only 3 got transferred to BT Mail, cannot transfer the other 2 because 'these email addresses are already in use'. Spoke to customer services somewhere abroad for over an hour, they said it was fixed but it never was.

Can you still access the untransferred email accounts by logging in to yahoo.com at this page?
https://uk.yahoo.com/
using the previous credentials (email address/password combo)
(start with an empty cookie cache - clearing out all yahoo cookies first)
and secondly - if you use an email client - is that still able to access the accounts, using the settings provided here:
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44917/related/1/session/
and the same (old) email address/password combo
(for the UNmigrated accounts, avoid the BTID route completely for the moment - just try them via uk.yahoo.com )
If the answer to both questions is YES, I would suggest just waiting till BT get round to migrating them. Not all accounts/sub accounts get migrated together (which is crazy I know) - but trying to get BT to "fix" it, may just make like a lot more complicated for you - and you could end up messing up settings/passwords for your existing BTMail accounts.
Your experience could be very helpful to others, so do keep us informed here!

How can I confirm email accounts have transferred

Following receipt of the email about closure of the btinternet email acocunts for non-customers, I have returned to BT and my new broadband service was activated on 3 September. I immediately tried to link my BT Yahoo primary and sub account email addresses to the new broadband account. However, I have a number of concerns.
Not all sub-accounts recieved the closure email (the primary one did and some of the sub-accounts). I have tried to link all the accounts that received the email and did recived some confirmations that this had been registered. I tried web-chat to confirm that the accounts were linked and to find out what to do about the ones that did not receved the email. However, I was left with no confidence that this has actually taken place as the person I was chatting with didn't seem to have much of a clue about what was going on.
The thing that really worries me is nothing seems to have changed. On the BT Yahoo account details for the old primary address it shows 'BT Yahoo! Pay-as-you-go' as my Product (and not Broadband). On the BT Yahoo account details for the new primary address that I created for the new braodband service, there are no sub-accounts listed.
These email addresses (and the emails they contain) are very important to me. So much so that I was motivated to go through the hassle of changing my broadband provider. Is there any way to get some assurance that the email addresses are linked correctly?
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Hi all,
This maight help on how to check if your sub accounts are linked to your Primary BT email account and to see what product/service you are on.
If you login to this website here: https://bt.edit.client.yahoo.com/accounts? with your Sub accounts email address and password.
Once your in you will see a "Accounts" under the Account Information section. Here you should then be able to see the current sub accounts email address and if it is linked to your Primary BT email address then it will also display the Primary BT email address.
It will also tell you what service/product you are on.
See an example of the website below: https://bt.edit.client.yahoo.com/accounts?
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Multiple email accounts auto sync no smtp settings transferred

I have about 7 email accounts set up in Mac Mail. When I sync these to my iphone the outgoing server (smtp) settings don't transfer and I need to type in each one for each separate account. Really quite a pain.
Anyone know how to make the outgoing server info sync over automatically so that it's the same as what I set up on the computer?
Thanks

Hi, thanks. They're not. One is a hotmail account and one a BTconnect. I can see what you're saying... the outgoing primary mail server in settings is set differently for each account.
The outgoing server for hotmail is set at smtp.live.com and the BTconnect is smtp.btconnect.com.
If I go into outgoing servers on the hotmail account it allows me to turn off all other servers listed, including the BTconnect one. BUT when I go into the BTconnect one to turn off the hotmail one, it's greyed out and won't let me... very confusing/frustrating!

Transferring old email accounts on iPhone 3G to new iPhone 4

How do I transfer all my email accounts (10+) on my old iPhone 3G to my new iPhone 4 without having to add all the account information again?

Thanks Julian. Sorry for the stupid question as I always thought it would be better to do synchronisation over the air, but I now read indeed it's just the account information iTunes syncs. Best, Fernando

Transferring client email account to Business Catalyst

Hello. A client is about to switch to their new BC hosted site. Their current email is hosted by the same company that hosts their email account and has been told that by cancelling their site hosting they will also be cancelling the email hosting, which sounds a bit irregular to me, but that's what I/they have been told. So, if they choose to use the BC site email host solution, will they still be able to use their current email addresses? How do I go about setting this up? Can anybody please direct me to clear documentation that explains the steps involved.
Thanks in advance.
Grant

Hi Grant Senior,
You will need to firstly ensure that your domain is redelegated to Business Catalyst's nameservers: http://kb.worldsecuresystems.com/846/cpsid_84622.html?bc-partner#main_Updating_the_nameser vers_. Once you have done this, simply add the domain to your site via the admin console > Site Settings > Site Domains. An MX record will be created automatically. After which, you can navigate to Site Settings > Email Accounts in order to create individual email accounts.
Additional information can also be found here: http://docs.businesscatalyst.com/user-manual#!/site-settings/email-users.

Transferring emails and google docs to new account.

I'm not sure this is the right forum, but I will give it a shot.
I am closing out one email account and opening up another, the old is my school account and the new is a gmail account. I have emails and google docs that I would like to keep. Is there a way to transfer them from the old account to the new? Thanks! Kelly

Download the docs to your desktop
If you are accessing the gmail account from a client (like mac mail) archive the mailbox (mailbox>archive mailbox)
Your docs and mail are now on your local machine and can be put back in your new account when ready

Transferring email addresses between accounts

I have 2 broadband accounts on 2 separate telephone lines coming into my house but I need to terminate one of the lines and broadband services. The email addresses on the line to be terminated are really well used and I want to change them over to my new account rather than going through the process of trying to trace and update literally hundreds of sites and people. Is there a simple way to do this? If I delete them from the old account would I instantly be able to add them to my other account?
Thanks for any advice on this
Laurie

Hi Laurie,
I'll be able to help you get your email address switched over. Send me in your details using the "Contact The Mods" link found in my profile.
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PaddyB
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Transferring email addresses between BT accounts

I currently have two BT broadband accounts and would like to transfer my email sub addresses from one account to another.
Is this possible?
How do I go about doing it?
Thanks

Hi jonb0709,
I can help with that. Use the 'contact the mods' link in my forum profile under the 'about me' section to send me your details. You can find the link by clicking on my username.
Thx
Neil
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Transferring sub account email address to new Broa...

My daughter used an email address as a sub account on my main account. She recently became a new BT Broadband customer at another address.
She used my sub account email address as a BT ID on her new account and can access her account information.
However her email address is no longerfunctioning as an email address, not being recognised as such. consequently she cannot access her emails.
Can the moderators arrange to transfer her email address and emails to her new account as her main email address?
Many thanks
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Hi JayCeeBee,
Please use the 'contact the mods' link in my forum profile to send in the email and account details and we'll be happy to help. You can find the link by clicking on my username.
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Having trouble setting up one email account

Hello,
I bought a Passport yesterday and am having one major issue. I have 3 email accounts through Yahoo and 2 of them addeded with no problem at all. However, one (my main one, of course) transferred briefly, then disappeared and now when I try to add it I get the message "Accounts. At this time your email and contacts accounts can't be added. Please try again later."
I've tried...and tried...and TRIED. Nothing changes. Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Cally
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patapoof wrote:
BlackBerry doesn't work if yahoo mail 2 step security is enabled... disable it in yahoo mail settings webpage...
Don't assume your experience is the rule.
I have been using Yahoo two-factor authentication on Z10 and on Passport with no issue. Now Z10 being used by wife with her Yahoo email and with two-factor authentication, and again no trouble.
To add, I would not advise going backward to a less secure method. Simple username and password authentication is not advisable nowadays
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