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IMAP Email Importer Software Guide

How to Upload Local Emails in IMAP Server, Accounts, & Custom Domains?

Pre-Requisites

 


STEP 1

Begin the process by properly download the software and install it in your computer.

Activate your tool by going tho the Activation Steps

The Help section below of the screen provides the information of each software sections.

install imap import tool

STEP 2

Select your email file format from Source tab. IMAP from Destination tab.

Source & Destination

STEP 3

Click Date Filter for selective import. Set a date range and the tool sorts out the emails.

date filter

STEP 4

To upload your email files in software. First create a local email folder in root drive.

Name the folder same as the file that you are importing.

create email folder

STEP 5

Add users subfolder within the email folders. Create multiple subfolders for multiple users.

user subfolder

Each users must have individual subfolders just like this image.

create separate folders of each users

Every folder contains unique email files.

each users has different emails

So, the folder structue look like this:

E:/EML/[email protected]/(put all EML files of user1)
E:/EML/[email protected]/(put all EML files of user2)
E:/EML/[email protected]/(put all EML files of user3)
etc...

With this same way create folders of other email files: PST, MBOX, and MSG.

STEP 6

Add your email folder in source dashboard. Make sure it has necessary permissions.

add your email folder

Click Validate button to verify the files permissions.

validated email files

STEP 7

Choose the IMAP options in which you want to import the files.

choose destination

STEP 8

Validate your destination accounts as well. After verifying, click Next.

Validate destination account

STEP 9

Add user accounts in the software. For this, it provides you three options

Fetch Users: Automatically fetch source user IDs from your desktop.

Fetch Users

Import Users: Submit a CSV file for user mapping.

Download Template: Download the sample ID map file and manually add the user details..

Download Template

STEP 10

After fetching source user, add destination user and app password.

add destination users

Make sure you validate both source and destination users.

Validate users

STEP 11

You can import specific users emails to the account by selecting them. The Show Selected option allows you to view your selected users.

show selected

STEP 12

Set User Priority to upload important emails first. Then, click on Start Import option to begin the process of uploading.

start import

Wait patiently to get the importing process is done.

complete

STEP 13

The tool offer three re-import options when some of the emails are failed to upload.

re-import files

STEP 14

After the importing the files in the destination account. It generates two reports for your analysis.

Start Import

Download the report in CSV file in your local machine.

download report

After that, you can share your report, view, and analyze as per you need.

view report

STEP 15

If you are manually importing your user ID map. First, click on the download button, add the informations in CSV file. Save it and submit it to the software. Here's the sample file.

Download Report

The rest of the steps of validating, set priority, etc. are the same.

STEP 16

Now, you have import your emails in your email account. Go to your email service to see if the emails are properly uploaded or not.

view emails

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