You can use this procedure with any email client programs. If you aren't working with Outlook 2003 and Windows Live Mail, this lesson may still be helpful as a demonstration of the overall procedure. The steps are similar in other email programs.

You can find email configuration tutorials for most popular email programs by clicking on this URL: http://about.hover.com/email

Step 1: Configure your Hover email account using IMAP in the email program that contains the messages that you need to move.

Step 2: Copy the messages that you need to backup into a folder in your Hover IMAP account (this puts the email on our server so it can be fetched from another computer).

Step 3: Configure your Hover email using IMAP in your new email software.

In the screenshot above I've highlighted the Inbox that I am going to copy to my IMAP account.

Click on Tools and select E-mail Accounts.

Select Add a new e-mail account and click Next.

Select IMAP and click Next.

Fill out the Internet E-mail Settings screen with the following information:

Your Name: Enter your name as you wish it to appear when you send e-mail
E-mail Address: Enter your full Hover email address

Incoming mail server (IMAP): mail.hover.com
Outgoing mail server (SMTP): mail.hover.com

User Name: Enter your full Hover email address
Password: Enter your email password

After entering these settings, click on More Settings.

Click on the Outgoing Server tab and put a check next to My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication. Use same settings as my incoming mail server should be selected.

Select the Advanced tab and put a check next to This server requires an SSL secured connection (SSL) under the Incoming server (IMAP) and the Outgoing server (SMTP). Next, change the Outgoing server (SMTP): port from 25 to 465.

Click OK.

Click Next.

Click Finish.

Microsoft Outlook will automatically populate your IMAP folders in a folder list under the server name.

To keep everything tidy, we'll create a new folder for the messages. To do this, right click on the account and select the New Folder option.

For this folder, I'm going to choose the name Archive.

The new Archive folder has been added to the IMAP account.

Select all of the messages in your POP account Inbox (press Ctrl-A to select them all at once) then right click and select Move to Folder.

Select the folder that you want to move the messages into. In the screenshot above, you can see I've selected the Archive folder that I just created. If you prefer, you can select your IMAP inbox to put all of your messages into the same inbox on our server.

Now the messages have been moved over to my Archive folder. Depending on the number of messages you have in your old POP account inbox, this could take several minutes to complete.

To confirm that everything worked out okay, I logged into https://mail.hover.com to look at the account messages on the Hover email server. You can see the Archive folder and all of its messages appear in webmail above. This confirms that the email messages were successfully moved to our email server.

Now that copies of your messages are saved on our IMAP mail server, you can fetch the messages from any other email program on any computer or device that supports IMAP. Instructions for most common email programs can be found at this URL: http://about.hover.com/email

As a demonstration, I'm going to configure the account using Windows Live Mail.

Open Windows Mail and click Add e-mail account.

Fill in the following information:

1. Your Hover email address and password. Ensure the "Remember password" box is checked.

2. Enter your name as you wish it to appear when you send email as the Display Name.

3. Put a check next to "Manually configure server settings for e-mail account."

Click Next.

Enter the following settings in the two sections:

1. Incoming Server Information:

a. Select IMAP from the My incoming mail server is a X server drop down list.
b. Incoming server: mail.hover.com
c. Put a check next to This server requires a secure connection (SSL). This will change the port from 143 to 993.
d. Log on using needs to be set to Clear text authentication.
e. Login ID: Enter your full Hover email address

2. Outgoing Server Information:

a. Outgoing server: mail.hover.com
b. Put a check next to This server requires a secure connection (SSL). Change the port from 25 to 465.
c. Put a check next to My outgoing server requires authentication.

Click Next.

Click Finish.

A list of your IMAP folders on our server will be displayed. By default, all folders will be made visible.

If you want to change which folders are displayed in Windows Live Mail, hold down the Ctrl key and select individual folders then click on the Show or Hide button.

Click OK.

The archive folder and all of its messages are now accessible in Windows Live Mail. Your messages have been moved!
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