Contents E-Wire Email Configuration and Migration... 2 Webmail... 2 Migration Process... 2 POP Accounts... 3 Checking Current POP Configuration... 3 POP Migration Process... 5 IMAP Accounts... 6 IMAP Migration Procedure... 6 Generic Email Server Settings... 8
E-Wire Email Configuration and Migration This document will assist you in migrating your emails from our old system on to our new email service. We ve divided the document into three sections depending on how you generally use your email. These are: You check your emails primarily through webmail only You check your emails through a POP account on your computer You check your emails through an IMAP account In case you re not sure if you re using a POP or IMAP account and you would like to find out this information, please 1. Open your email program (Outlook, Thunderbird, Windows Mail etc) 2. Go to Account settings for the emails. In Outlook 2010 this is located under File then Account Settings, in outlook 2007 it s under the Tools menu option then Account Settings 3. Once you open up the settings page, it should list up all your accounts and also their types. For your e-wire email addresses the type will most probably be listed as IMAP/SMTP or POP/SMTP Before starting to use the new system you will need to know the password to your e-wire email account. Webmail Migration Process If you use webmail to check your emails you will need to navigate to our new webmail system which can be found at http://mail3.e-wire.net.au/ and log in using your username (first part of the email address before the @ sign) and current password. Please see screenshot below Figure 1: Webmail Login
After you login, the new mail system will check the old system and retrieve all your emails that are in your inbox including the folders you had in the old system. This process will NOT retrieve your contacts saved into webmail and they would need to be copied into your new webmail one by one. It may take up to a few hours depending on the number and size of emails in your inbox before all emails can be available via the new web interface. However you should be ready to send and receive emails from the new system the moment you successfully login. POP Accounts A POP account is an account that uses the POP3 protocol to get emails from the email system. A POP account usually deletes all the emails off the email system whenever you check your emails on your computer. To confirm this is the case you can log in to the old webmail using the link https://www.ewire.net.au/tools/webmail and login using your username and password. If you see some emails missing from webmail but are clearly present on your email program then you are using a POP account. To avoid complications when migrating, it is recommended that you have your outlook delete the emails from webmail once it s retrieved them. This is because once the migration starts and you have a local copy of the email and also a copy left on the server but are using a POP account will result in your inbox having duplicates post migration. This is because you will have a local copy of the email on your outlook and the email system will also copy the email from the old system and will be shown on your inbox as a new email. Checking Current POP Configuration To ensure that all emails are deleted from the server, 1. Open your mail program 2. Go to the Account Settings section where you have the option to change server details. See an image below from outlook 2010 Figure 2: Initial POP Settings
3. Click on More settings and click on Advanced and ensure that leave a copy of messages on the server. See image below Figure 3: More Settings, Advanced Tab 4. Once this is unchecked click on okay and save the settings by clicking on next on the internet settings pop up. 5. Click on send and receive and wait for your email to retrieve all the emails. You can check the webmail to make sure that no emails are left in there. NB: This process is irreversible once the emails are on your local machine we cannot retrieve them if something we to happen to your computer. Please exercise caution when changing these settings.
POP Migration Process To complete the migration of your email account that s a POP you will need to follow the following procedure: 1. Navigate to our new webmail system, http://www.mail3.e-wire.net.au and log in using your email username and password. Please see figure 1 above for details. 2. Once you re logged in you should see a new email from the system welcoming you to the new platform. 3. After this you should go to the email settings page on your email program and update the server settings as per the screenshot below. Figure 4: New Email Server Settings 4. As an added level of security you must sign in with your email account to send out an email. This can be done by clicking on more settings and selecting the outgoing Server tab and ensuring that the My outgoing server (SMTP) requires authentication and another tick on Use same settings as my incoming mail server. Please see the screenshot below from outlook 2010 Figure 5: Outgoing Server Authentication
5. After this click on okay and next to have outlook or your mail program test the new settings. IMAP Accounts If you ve configured your email address on multiple devices then most likely you ve configured the email as an IMAP account. When it comes to migrating an IMAP account, it is recommended that you remove the current account on your computer / mail program and set up the account a fresh with the new details. IMAP Migration Procedure 1. Confirm that all your emails on your computer also exist on the webmail interface by logging in to https://www.e-wire.net.au/tools/webmail with your username and password. 2. If all the emails are accounted for in webmail. Open your mail program and remove the current account you have set up. 3. After removing the account navigate to the new email system by navigating to http://mail3.e-wire.net.au/ and logging in using your full email address and current password. Please see figure 1 above for details 4. Once you re logged in, the new mail system will pull emails from the old system and update them on your new mailbox. Depending on the number of emails in the old mailbox this may take anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours and it s recommended that this step be done after hours when you do not need your emails urgently. 5. Once the emails are all retrieved and you can see them on the new webmail you can configure you mail program with the new account details. See screenshots below from Outlook 2010 Figure 6: New Email Account
Figure 7: Manual Server Settings Figure 8: Internet E-Mail account Figure 9: General Email settings and Outgoing Server Settings
6. After this click on okay and next to have outlook or your mail program test the new settings Generic Email Server Settings To configure your mail client appropriately please use the details below as the case may be Setting Name Value E-Mail Address Your current email address eg. abc@e-wire.net.au Password Your current password for your e-wire email account Incoming Mail Server mail3.e-wire.net.au Outgoing Mail Server mail3.e-wire.net.au Username Your email username eg. abc Require SSL or logon using Secure No Password Authentication Outgoing Mail Server Yes and use the same details as incoming mail server Authentication Required Server Port Detail POP3 Port 110 IMAP Port 143 SMTP Port 25 If your mail client supports auto detection of settings they should be picked up when configuring your email address although confirming the details would also guarantee that