I migrated my custom domain to icloud+. Seems to work but there are three problems/questions:

  1. Where are all my emails? I used IMAP so i thought that all the inboxes (of the 3 accounts) will besynchronized after the “redirection” to icloud+

  2. I imported three e-mails: Does icloud not seperate those three accounts? There is only one folder in Mail (on ipad and iphone)?

  3. How can i configure the icloud-account(s) in thunderbird?

Thanks for help

SOLUTIONS:

  1. To get your old mails in your new icloud-account, you can use the mail-app or thunderbird (i guess outlook too) and draw the mails in the new folders. I just draw the inboxes to the new icloud-account-folders and the other stuff to local folders. Good possibility to minimize. Have to see if it works.

  2. Workaround: Create folders and rules in icloud+, so that the mails will be sorted.

  3. You have to create an app-password that works in thunderbird or other 3rd party apps.

Thank you! This sublemmy is gold!

    • moddy@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago
      1. I did not see the + to import mails but this would not work either because the old mailservers do not work anymore.
    • valkyre09@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 year ago

      1: there’s a third party app called MailJerry - I’ve used it before for these types of migrations

      2: if you set the mail rules on iCloud.com, the emails will go in to their respective folders at the server level and you won’t need to configure it every time you set up a mail client.

      • moddy@feddit.deOP
        2·
        1 year ago

        1: Seems too late in my case. I yet edited the DNS-configuration so i do not have access to the old servers.

        2: YES! This looks good! Will try this. THANKS

        • valkyre09@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          You can still access the mail without the dns entries.

          If you used to enter, say for example mail.domain.com in your mail client. That would have pointed to an IP address of a mail server.

          Use that IP address instead of the domain name.

          I used to do email migration for a web design company and it happened all the time where dns switched before email was migrated.

          If your email was hosted by a third party like Google etc then the dns won’t matter.