{"id":84,"date":"2026-09-28T23:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/move-existing-email-provider-to-mx1mail\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:07:47","slug":"move-existing-email-provider-to-mx1mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/en\/move-existing-email-provider-to-mx1mail\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Move From an Existing Email Provider to MX1Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Moving to MX1Mail<\/h2>\n<p>Changing a business email provider can be straightforward when the migration is planned in the correct order.<\/p>\n<p>The first step is to add the company domain to MX1Mail and prepare the destination mailboxes.<\/p>\n<h2>Analyze existing email<\/h2>\n<p>A secure IMAP connection can be used to analyze folders and messages on the existing mail server. This makes it possible to understand how much historical data needs to be preserved.<\/p>\n<h2>Historical email archive<\/h2>\n<p>Historical email does not necessarily need to consume active mailbox storage. Older messages can be stored in a dedicated archive and made available when users need to access previous communication.<\/p>\n<h2>DNS cutover<\/h2>\n<p>After destination accounts and historical data are prepared, MX and related DNS records can be updated to point to the MX1Mail infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>New incoming messages then begin arriving through MX1Mail while the previous provider can remain available temporarily for final verification.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See how businesses can prepare mailboxes, migrate historical email and complete DNS cutover when moving to MX1Mail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[96,86,161,81],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-email","tag-dns-en","tag-email-archiving","tag-email-management","tag-email-migration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}