Your old mail comes along, folder by folder.
EMX copies every mailbox from your current provider over IMAP, with folders, dates and flags, nothing twice. The old account keeps its mail until you cancel it.
EMX is in beta. Mailboxes, shared mailboxes, calendars, contacts, the web client, every mail app over IMAP and SMTP, calendar and contacts apps over CalDAV and CardDAV, the API and the webhooks work today; more features are being added.What is not included yet
How the move works
Organisation and domain
Create the organisation and add the domain. Nothing changes for incoming mail yet.
Add people
Each person gets a mailbox with the same address as before; shared mailboxes for info@ and the like.
Copy the mail
Each person starts the move under Settings, Import and export, with the old provider's server and app password. It runs in the background and resumes after an interruption.
Switch the DNS
Publish the records EMX shows, or let EMX make them through Cloudflare or Domain Connect. Once the MX is right, new mail arrives at EMX.
Copy a second time
The move fetches only what arrived since the first run. Then you can cancel the old provider.
DNS without guesswork
Checked live
Check now shows every record as it is checked, wrong ones with what was found beside what is expected. An open domain checks itself every 45 seconds, with a countdown.
With Cloudflare
If the DNS is at Cloudflare, EMX makes the records with an API token for that zone. You see every change first; existing SPF and DMARC records are merged, nothing is deleted except MX records that send mail elsewhere, and those only once you confirm. The token is not kept.
With Domain Connect
With supported DNS providers, Domain Connect makes the records without you typing them. EMX tells you whether your provider is one of them.
By hand
The records to copy, or as a zone file that many providers import in one step.
Common providers
Most need an app password of their own for IMAP, not the account password.
| Gmail and Google Workspace | imap.gmail.com, port 993, app password from the Google account |
|---|---|
| Microsoft 365 and Outlook.com | outlook.office365.com, port 993. Microsoft often allows IMAP only with an OAuth sign-in, which the move cannot do yet; write to us and we bring the mail across with you |
| Infomaniak | mail.infomaniak.com, port 993 |
| Hostpoint | imap.mail.hostpoint.ch, port 993 |
| Other hosting | the IMAP server your provider names, usually port 993 |
Good to know
- Messages that are too largeWhat exceeds the size stays with the old provider; EMX lists each such message with subject and folder.
- CalendarsThe move copies mail only. Export your events at the old provider as an .ics file and import them with a calendar app connected to EMX over CalDAV, such as Apple Calendar or Thunderbird.
- ContactsThe move does not copy them. Export them at the old provider as a .vcf file and import it under Contacts in the web client, or with a contacts app connected to EMX over CardDAV.
- HelpFor a move with many mailboxes, write to us; we plan it with you.
A mailbox at your own domain, today.
Private is free and starts at once. Switch to Team when more people join.