Hi. I am in over my head and asking for help. Around 20 years ago I had an email and domain name only package with Go Daddy. We have four email addresses for the family. It went from under 20 bucks a year to a couple hundred dollars a year. If it makes a difference, I don’t use the webpage, just the email. Go Daddy used to have their own email platform but now use Outlook online. On our phones we just use the email app.
I understand there are other companies out there that will host my email, but I’m not sure how I would switch to another company without losing all of my archives of saved emails. For each account.
I am in over my head. I don’t know what I’m doing anymore. Is there any other service I can switch to that might be less money than Go Daddy that would allow me to keep my emails?
I have searched Reddit, but can’t seem to get a firm understanding. on our phones we just use the email app. I will appreciate any and all advice about how I can get what I’m looking for. Thank you so much.
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Imapsync. Used by Linux engineers since forever to copy email accounts from one server to another
To add onto this for OP, if you are unable to dedicate the time to learn enough to utilize imapsync, using a site like Upwork to hire someone to do it for you should still cost less than your yearly spend. Keep in mind anyone using the tool on your behalf would be able to keep a copy of all your emails for themselves, so there is definitely some motivation to learn there.
simple version:
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save your existing mail locally
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point the DNS record of your domain name at whatever new service you are buying (they should have instructions on that)
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import some / all / none of the mail you saved locally to the new service as you see fit
now your email will come and go from your new mail service
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To give you some context, GoDaddy email is actually Outlook 365 (now Microsoft 365), which is normally $99/year but GoDaddy slap a higher price on it.
If you were knowledgeable about Outlook admin/Azure you could simply disconnect your Microsoft Outlook tenant from GoDaddy and stop your subscription.
Since you’re not, you can use BitTitan.com to help you migrate, it’s $12/user and you can ask their sales support to help with all the gory details. Basically you make a new account on whatever service you want and they get all your mail over. Make sure that the new service you get can hold all your mail (has enough space) and also has 4 mailboxes – BitTitan moves your email but getting the right service is on you.
If you’re ok using Outlook and Exchange you can ask BitTitan to move you to another Microsoft 365 account, which as I said is $99/year for a family account of up to 6 users.
If you want you can also shop around for regular IMAP (non-Exchange) providers, which will let you use a wider range of mail apps, and ask BitTitan to move you to one of them. But keep in mind that most providers charge $3-5/user/month, which for 4 users adds up to something similar to what you’re paying now, or more. One notable alternative is Migadu.com’s Mini plan, $90/year with no user limits, but you all have to share 30 GB of storage space. MXroute.com is another option, they offer more space for cheaper, same deal (no user limits, y’all share the same storage space). Personally I prefer Migadu for my family because their control panel has more features, they’re hosted in the EU which for me makes more sense, and they’re a company rather than a one guy operation; but if you need more space MXroute is perfectly fine too.
Just do the work yourself , why spend money on bit tantrum , aka boob Titian , aka brain torture, aka boulda dash, aka waste 'o time!!! Bit titan nothing more than an overlay for existing functionality - don’t be wasting your monies folks. Be smart
How is a completely non-technical person going to solve this on their own? Start studying to be a Microsoft sysadmin? Hire a Microsoft sysadmin? I think $12/mailbox for a one time migration is not a bad deal. And btw if you go ask on /r/sysadmin about it this is the same answer you’ll get: use BitTitan and call it a day.
Guess the clue is in the “I’m in over my head” statement.
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Simplest option: Switch to Gmail and add your domain as an alias.
Not so simple, but not by a great deal: Switch to Zoho.
You really have two problems
The first problem is archival and storage of your existing messages. For this you are dependent on whatever tools GoDaddy gives you, if GoDaddy is your current email provider and client. There’s probably a way to use an email client to connect with the IMAP server and download them, but the place to start is with the GoDaddy documentation.
The second problem is how to move your domain name registration to a new registrar. The good news is that this is always possible, annoying but not difficult, and allows you to completely retain control over the domains. Here again you need godaddy’s documentation regarding how to transfer the domain name to another registrar. Cloudflare is one option that allows email forwarding and has excellent documentation, but there are lots of alternatives. It should cost you about $12 a year for your domain, and email forwarding from there should be free. The easiest system is just to have a Gmail address that all of your custom addresses forward to, but it’s up to you.
Thank you everybody! I am overwhelmed with appreciation for your collective responses. It seems like I am far from trapped. Thank you very very very much.
