Horde: Fetching emails from another server with Horde

Horde can be used to fetch emails on a remote mail server. You can use this feature when you are performing a migration process of  non cPanel domains. The steps are described here:

Logging into Horde

♦ First, go to webmail at https://www.$DOMAIN/webmail

♦ Log in with with the email address and the email password.

♦ Choose the Horde Mail Client.

Setting up a Fetch Mail Account in Horde

♦ Click on “MAIL” on the left side of the screen

♦ Click “OPTIONS” on the upper-right side of the screen

♦ Click “FETCH EMAIL” beneath the Message Options

♦ Click the link “Edit your preferences for accessing other mail accounts”

♦ Click “Create a New Account”

♦ Select “IMAP/POP3 Mail Servers” from the drop-down menu

♦ Enter the required details::

• Account Name: A name (can be anything you’d like to call it)
• Protocol: Use “POP3 (Auto Detect Protocol)” for one off imports or “IMAP (Auto Detect Protocol)” for repeated imports
• Username: The full email address you wish to fetch in format name@yourdomain.com
• Password: The email password for the email you wish to fetch
• Server: The server name or IP address
• Remote Mailbox: The folder name you wish to fetch, usually “Inbox”
• Local Mailbox: The folder into which emails should be imported. If you have not set up a specific folder, use “Inbox”
• Tick “Get only new messages” if using IMAP (does not apply to POP3)
• Tick “Mark messages as seen” if using IMAP (does not apply to POP3)

♦ Click “Create”

Fetching mail

♦ Click “MAIL” on the left hand side of the screen

♦ Click the “FETCH EMAIL” button at the top of the screen

♦ Tick the the account(s) you want to fetch

♦ Click “FETCH MAIL”