{"id":90,"date":"2026-09-28T23:07:47","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/email-folders-preserved-imap-migration\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T23:07:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T20:07:47","slug":"email-folders-preserved-imap-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/en\/email-folders-preserved-imap-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Email Folders Preserved During IMAP Migration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Why do mailbox folders matter?<\/h2>\n<p>Business users rarely keep every message in the Inbox. Sent Items, Drafts, Trash and custom folders may contain years of important company communication.<\/p>\n<h2>Can IMAP read folder structure?<\/h2>\n<p>IMAP allows a migration system to list folders on the source server. Each folder can then be analyzed and its messages processed individually.<\/p>\n<h2>Folder structure in an archive<\/h2>\n<p>When historical email is moved into an archive, preserving the original folder information makes old messages much easier to navigate.<\/p>\n<p>Users can identify whether an email originally belonged to the Inbox, Sent folder or another custom folder.<\/p>\n<h2>Analyze before migration<\/h2>\n<p>Displaying the number of folders and messages before migration begins provides a clear overview of what will be transferred.<\/p>\n<p>The MX1Mail migration approach analyzes the source mailbox before the migration is approved, helping businesses understand the scope of the transfer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Learn how Inbox, Sent, Drafts and custom folders can be identified and preserved during an IMAP email migration.<\/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":[81,91],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-email","tag-email-migration","tag-imap-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","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=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mx1mail.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}