Quick Guide to Migrate Business Domain Email to Office 365

Proven Ways to Transfer Emails from Domain to Office 365

There are two ways that will help you to move all the emails. You can check out the automated solution first and then try the manual process for the Domain to Office 365 email migration.

Use Sysinfo IMAP Backup Tool to Migrate Domain Emails

This software is the solution to your email migration problems. You will be able to move all your domain emails with attachments and all mailbox items to your Office 365 account without missing even a single email. On the other hand, the high compatibility of this software with Mac, Windows, and Linux makes it universally downloadable software. You can follow the steps given below to migrate domain email to Office 365.

• Download and Launch the Sysinfo IMAP Backup Tool.
• Enter the User ID, Password, Port Number, and Hostname of the email service provider of your Domain.
• Now you will see all the emails that are stored in your Domain.
• Mark the emails that you want to migrate to your Office 365 Account and click on Next.
• Now in the Save As option, choose Office 365.
• Then click on Login and authenticate Office 365 Login through your browser.
• You can also choose your preferred Office 365 User ID and migrate business domain emails to it.
• Finally, click on the Convert button and all your business domain emails will be migrated to your Office 365 account.

This is the easiest way to migrate all emails with attachments from your business domain to Office 365. Another way to execute this task is by extracting all Domain emails to an MBOX file and then importing the MBOX file to Office 365 using the MBOX Exporter Software. You can go through this method in the section given below.

Manual Method to Extract Emails from Business Domain for Migration

The business domain emails are usually managed through the cPanel. So, you will have to login to the cPanel and then extract all Domain emails to an MBOX file. Later on, you can use the MBOX Exporter to directly import the emails to your Office 365 account. You can follow the steps for downloading domain emails to an MBOX file.

• Open cPanel and login with your domain’s credentials.
• Then select the email account whose emails you want to migrate and click on the Check Email button.
• Now click on Horde and view all your Domain emails.
• Press Ctrl+A on your keyboard and select all the domain emails.
• Then make right-click and select the Export option.
• Click on the Download into an MBOX file option and click OK to confirm.
• Finally, all your domain emails will be saved to an MBOX file.

Now with the help of MBOX Exporter, you can easily import the MBOX file to your Office 365 account. This method won’t directly migrate domain email to Office 365 but it will do the migration in two steps i.e. extracting domain emails to MBOX and Importing MBOX files to Office 365.

Conclusion

You have seen that there are two methods to migrate domain email to Office 365. You are free to choose any method and do the domain email migration. If you just want to backup domain emails to a local PC then you can save them in an MBOX file without using any software. But for migrating business domain emails, you will need automated software.

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