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# Migrate to a new e-mail server while keeping your existing address
While switching e-mail provider (from provider `A` to `B`), you might want to keep the same address (`mymail@domain.com`), and restrieve all your existing e-mails on your new server `B`. `imap-backup` can do that too!
1. Backup your e-mails: use [`imap-backup setup`](/docs/commands/setup.md) to setup connection to your old provider `A`, then launch [`imap-backup backup`](/docs/commands/backup.md).
1. Actually switch your e-mail service provider (update your DNS MX and all that...).
1. It is best to use [`imap-backup migrate`](/docs/commands/migrate.md) and not [`imap-backup restore`](/docs/commands/restore.md) here, but both the source and the destination have the same address... You need to manually rename your old account first:
1. Modify your configuration file manually (i.e. not via `imap-backup setup`) and rename your account to `mymail-old@domain.com`:
```diff
"accounts": [
{
- "username": "mymail@domain.com",
+ "username": "mymail-old@domain.com",
"password": "...",
- "local_path": "/some/path/.imap-backup/mymail_domain.com",
+ "local_path": "/some/path/.imap-backup/mymail-old_domain.com",
"folders": [...],
"server": "..."
}
```
1. Rename the backup directory from `mymail_domain.com` to `mymail-old_domain.com`.
1. Set up a new account giving access to the new provider `B` using `imap-backup setup`.
1. Now you can use `imap-backup migrate`, optionnally adapting [delimiters and prefixes configuration](/docs/delimiters-and-prefixes.md) if need be:
imap-backup migrate mymail-old@domain.com mymail@domain.com [options]
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