Hi. I am in over my head and asking for help. Around 20 years ago I had an email and domain name only package with Go Daddy. We have four email addresses for the family. It went from under 20 bucks a year to a couple hundred dollars a year. If it makes a difference, I don’t use the webpage, just the email. Go Daddy used to have their own email platform but now use Outlook online. On our phones we just use the email app.

I understand there are other companies out there that will host my email, but I’m not sure how I would switch to another company without losing all of my archives of saved emails. For each account.

I am in over my head. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. Is there any other service I can switch to that might be less money than Go Daddy that would allow me to keep my emails?

I have searched Reddit, but can’t seem to get a firm understanding. on our phones we just use the email app. I will appreciate any and all advice about how I can get what I’m looking for. Thank you so much.

  • Freudianfix@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I recently moved my custom domain email from Microsoft 365 (with GoDaddy registrar and DNS) to iCloud+ (using CloudFlare as registrar and DNS). I was looking to transfer since Microsoft is going to stop officially supporting custom domain email hosting.

    I simply used an email client that supports IMAP to transfer everything. Logged into the Microsoft 365 instance of the email account and had the client download ALL of the email messages. Then transferred my DNS and domain from GoDaddy to CloudFlare. Set up the custom domain email through iCloud+, set up iCloud email via IMAP in the email client, then within the email client I dragged and dropped the emails to the new account. It took over a day to transfer around 100k emails.