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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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[–] weredev@alien.top 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do you have a custom domain name? If so, that makes it a bit more complicated as you'll want to transfer DNS as well.

For DNS, I recommend looking at services like NameCheap that specialize in that. They'll have some documentation around how to transfer DNS registration. You should be able to find other options for DNS searching this subreddit as well.

The second thing will be email hosting. One of the more popular ones out there these days is Fastmail. They have some documentation about how to migrate your emails over which is basically just allowing for an IMAP connection. Other email providers can also be found by searching through this subreddit.

Lastly, I would do these things one at a time. Migrating emails might be easier to do first, then update all the DNS stuff to point to your new server, then change registration of DNS. Reaching out to the DNS and Email providers, their support crews should be able to help fill in specifics of how to do that.

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

They can just point the mx record to a new mail host