E-mail and switching hosts ...

[BoHoJo]

Hi. I have published my website and am about to switch over the name servers from my old host to VodaHost, and I started to think "what happens to the old e-mail addresses?"

We have a bunch of e-mail addresses "attached" to the old host, and I'm not sure what to do regarding the SAME e-mail addresses with the NEW host. We obviously want to keep those e-mail addresses, and I'd hate to have to have everyone contact their ..well ...contacts to have to give them a different e-mail address to start using.

Do I set up the addresses again with VodaHost? Would the new one cancel the old one out? Do I need to tell our people not to use their e-mail for a few days? Does any of this make sense?

Any advice will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks,
BoHoJo

[VodaHost]

Re: E-mail and switching hosts ...

You will need to recreate them in your VodaHost control panel once the switch is complete...It is very easy, it will take about 5 seconds per address.

[kachano]

Re: E-mail and switching hosts ...

.... and what about the hundreds, if not thousands, of e-mails?

[navaldesign]

Re: E-mail and switching hosts ...

You can not transfer these emails from your old hoster. You can, however, download them to your own computer and have them stored there.