Going from IMAP email hosted on Apple server to one hosted online.

[hyruleknight]

Kind of a long story but bare with me. At my office, we have an IMAP email hosted on an Apple OSX server. All of our PC's are running windows XP with Outlook 2003 as the mail client. I came into this job with the email hosted like this so don't ask why we are running things like this. Anyways the time has come to get rid of this apple server and switch our apple hosted IMAP email to an online server from our company that hosts our domain name.

My question is: How can I keep the old emails from the apple server? Do I just export the .pst files in outlook and and then import them after all this has gone through and they will still be accessible when the apple is gone for good?

[Steve R Jones]

If you have a PST file with the mail - you'll always have a copy of the mail.... When going to a new host - you could continue using the same PST file if you wanted. You would just delete the old account setting and add the new.