HOWTO import emails from mx1, the old (hacked) sonance mail server
There are two ways of get your OLD mails & ftp-data imported into your mail software:
For both ways at first you have to download:
• You have to login to the ftp server ftp.sonance.net with your new email-account name and password: e.g. name_sonance_net and your new email password to connect to the user private ftp space.
• There you can see the folders of your old mailbox, the file with the name of your old email-accountname address is the former inbox, you should also se your old mailfolders ( all in the unix mbox format ) and your user-ftp data which was stored on mx1.
• If you do not see this files, please contact us under .
• DOWNLOAD ALL THE STUFF AND PLEASE DELETE THE THINGS YOU DO NOT NEED ANYMORE!
Therefore open a ftp program (e.g. duck, http://cyberduck.ch/ or FileZilla http://filezilla.sourceforge.net ) and login to the server with the email-user account data.
• Now Create the same subfolder-structure in your local folder in your email program to put the downloaded mails ( e.g. make a mailfolder called “mx1import” and the subfolders in your thunderbird.
First way, next steps:
• Look for the local folders of your email program on your computer and find out where all the subfolders of the local folder are saved (in your filebrowser, explorer, finder). There you can also see the subfolder you just created in your email program: “mx1import” (If you don’t see the folder close your email program and start it again, then it should work)
• Put the downloaded (mbox) files (subfolders with the emails) to the subfolder “mx1import” in your filebowser.
• If you open your email program you will find all the emails from the old server in the local folder subfolder “mx1import”.
• From there you can “drap and drop” the most important mails back to the imap server, if needed.
Second way, next steps:
• Some Email-Clients can Import Mbox files or
• look for a plugin to download for your email program on the net: (e.g. google for “Mbox Import Thunderbird: http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html or german version: http://www.thunderbird-mail.de/ -> erweitern/erweiterungen/mboximport/ -> get the plugin)
• Install the Mbox import plugin in your email program
• Import the downloaded Mbox folders with the MBOX-import funktion of you emailclient software.