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Transferring E-mails From Other E-mail Account To Horde E-mail Account
Posted by Mandar Kotkar on 16 April 2012 05:10 PM

Horde - web based E-mailservice in Linux hosting plan consist of an option which allows you to get E-mails from other E-mail accounts.

Caution: If the E-mail account that you wish to transfer from is holding many large size of E-mails or mailbox is large, we adviseyou do the transferring after office hour due to it will cause high load to theserver.

  1. You are required to create E-mail account in Linux server before proceed to the next step. Next, login Horde web mail. (http://www.yourdomain.com/webmail)
  2. Follow the step 1 to 4 with the following pictures to setup Fetch Mail. Fetch Mail allows you to transfer mail from other E-mail accounts.

  3. After click on Edit your preferences for accessing other mail accounts., choose optionCreate a New Account. 
  4. Under Mail server type to connect to:, choose IMAP/POP 3 Mail Servers. You will see the screen appears as below.

    Please fill in other mail account details as below:  
    Account's name: Enter your name
    Protocol: Select protocol that you use at other mail account
    Username: Enter full name of email address for account that will be getting from e,g: user@yourdomain.com
    Password: Enter password
    Server: Enter mail.yourdomain.com
    Remote Mailbox: Enter E-mail address (same as username)
    Local Mailbox: Select mailbox that you wanted to transfer from 

    Note: You are required to tick Fetch messages upon logging on?

     
  5.  Once you have entered above information, click Create to complete the setup of Fetch Mail.
  6. At the moment, you are ready to transfer the emails from other email account. Return to Inbox, follow the steps as in the following picture.

  7. Once you click on Fetch Mail, you will get a message Fetchmail: Fetched [number of message(s)] messages from [Account's name].
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