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Am I trapped with Go Daddy forever for my personal email? (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by jicole@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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Hi. I am in over my head and asking for help. Around 20 years ago I had an email and domain name only package with Go Daddy. We have four email addresses for the family. It went from under 20 bucks a year to a couple hundred dollars a year. If it makes a difference, I don’t use the webpage, just the email. Go Daddy used to have their own email platform but now use Outlook online. On our phones we just use the email app.

I understand there are other companies out there that will host my email, but I’m not sure how I would switch to another company without losing all of my archives of saved emails. For each account.

I am in over my head. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. Is there any other service I can switch to that might be less money than Go Daddy that would allow me to keep my emails?

I have searched Reddit, but can’t seem to get a firm understanding. on our phones we just use the email app. I will appreciate any and all advice about how I can get what I’m looking for. Thank you so much.

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[–] cspotme2@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The email export and migration is the hardest part. There may be some paid tools that could help facilities it into a major email provider.

If the accounts are now via office365 then you can use the outlook desktop client and export your mailbox to pst. Your account may also allow connecting by powershell and exporting to pst.

Thunderbird may be able to cache it all as well if somehow imap may still be allowed.

Once you know your exports are good then you can proceed with the below.

Switch dns to cloudflare free.

Pay for new email provider. Setup your accounts. Import the pst data.

Set your mx (mail records) to new email provider.

Do a updated export/sync of your godaddy mailbox after 72 hours and import the delta into your new email provider.

If you're non-technical and don't know any of the above then ask a friend or pay for some help.

[–] rainformpurple@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Mailstore Home is a free tool to backup email from various providerds to local storage and/or a new email provider. I'm using it to migrate away from Microsoft 365.