Migrate Horde Emails to Office 365

1. User interface (UI): Horde's interface is functional but lacks modern design elements. Office 365 offers a streamlined, intuitive UI that enhances user experience with clear navigation and easy access to emails, tasks, and calendars, boosting productivity.
2. Storage: Horde has limited storage, forcing users to manage inbox space manually. Office 365 provides scalable storage solutions, eliminating concerns about email limits and ensuring seamless archiving of important emails and attachments for future access.
3. Spam filtering: Office 365 outperforms Horde with its advanced spam filtering and security features. It effectively blocks phishing attacks and malicious emails, ensuring a cleaner inbox and protecting your data from cyber threats with built-in defenses.
4. Integration: While Horde operates independently, Office 365 integrates smoothly with the entire Microsoft ecosystem. This connectivity enables seamless collaboration across Word, Excel, Teams, and OneDrive, allowing real-time sharing and access to essential tools.
5. Accessibility: Horde’s web-based access limits usage to a single platform. Office 365 offers cloud-based access, ensuring you can view, send, and organize emails from any device such as a laptop, phone, or tablet boosting productivity from anywhere.

These reasons make Office 365 the ideal choice for migrating from Horde email. EdbMails offers a secure and easy solution for seamless Horde email to Office 365 migration.

Migrating emails from Horde to Office 365 can seem overwhelming, but with the right automated solution, the process becomes simple and efficient. EdbMails is a powerful tool that streamlines this migration, making it accessible to both professionals and beginners. It ensures that your emails are transferred seamlessly, without any loss of data or functionality. The tool offers a smooth migration process that guarantees accuracy and reliability, making the transition to Office 365 hassle-free.

EdbMails IMAP migration tool simplifies this migration with its user-friendly interface for migrating emails from Horde to Office 365. With delta migration, it only transfers changes made since the initial migration, saving time and reducing data transfer. Its automatic mailbox mapping ensures mailboxes are correctly mapped, preventing errors. Advanced filter settings let users select specific emails based on criteria such as date, subject, or attachments, ensuring only relevant emails are moved. Additionally, EdbMails enables migration with zero downtime, keeping your email communication uninterrupted. This makes the transition smooth, efficient, and secure, with full control over the process, ensuring zero disruption to your business operations.

Planning is one of the most important steps before you begin the Horde email to Office 365 migration. Here is a checklist of points to consider before you migrate.

• Determine the size of the data and the number of mailboxes you want to migrate.
• Make a list of all the data from the Horde email that you want to transfer.
• Create appropriate user mailboxes on Office 365 and assign licenses to them.
• Ensure you have enough network capacity and bandwidth to migrate.
• Communicate the migration plan and flow to your end users.

• 1. Find the IMAP server name of your Horde email server. You can find this information from your server’s dashboard settings or by connecting your email system to Outlook.
  2. Have the users email address, passwords, IMAP hostname and port number.
  3. Create mailboxes on your target Office 365 server. You can choose the option to automatically create target mailboxes in EdbMails. If you prefer to create them manually, refer to the links below.
     1. Add users and assign licenses to Office 365 users
     2. Assign Microsoft 365 licenses to user accounts
  4. If you have a custom email domain from your hosting provider to which you want to migrate and receive emails, you must add and verify the domain on Office 365.
      Steps to add a custom domain to Office 365 and Steps to add DNS records to connect your domain.
  5. Configure Office 365 to send and receive large messages.
     

      Follow the steps to increase the message size on Office 365 to 150MB and see tips to optimize IMAP migration to Exchange online

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• • Step 1: Download and install EdbMails IMAP migration software

    • Download and install EdbMails on your computer.

      

    • Open the application and sign in using your email and password. If you don’t have an account, click ‘Start Your Free Trial’ to begin using the application without registering right away.

      

    • Select the option ‘IMAP (Gmail, Outlook & more) Migration’.

      

    • Select ‘IMAP to Office 365 Migration’.

      

    • A default job name is assigned automatically when you begin the migration. If you prefer to personalize it for easier tracking or organization, especially when handling multiple migrations click on ‘New Job’ and enter a custom name.

      

  • Step 2: Connect to the source Horde email server

    • To migrate a single Horde email account, choose the ‘Single User / Account Migration’ option and click ‘Next’ to proceed with the configuration.

      

    • Select the correct IMAP hostname for your Horde email account from the list, or manually enter it if not listed. Then, enter your email address and password to continue with the connection setup.
    • Click the ‘Login’ button.

      

    • To migrate multiple Horde mailboxes, choose the ‘Multiple (Bulk) Users/Accounts Migration’ option and click ‘Next’.

      

    • Click ‘Download Sample CSV File’

      

    • Open the CSV file and input the required details, such as email address, password, server name, and port number. Once you've entered all the information, save the file.

      

    • After updating the CSV file, save it and close it.
    • Next, click the 'Browse CSV File' button, locate your updated CSV file, select it, and open it to proceed.

      

  • Step 3: Select the mailboxes or folders to migrate

    • Choose the mailboxes or specific folders you wish to migrate, then click ‘Next’ to continue.

      

  • Step 4: Connect to target Office 365 server

    • Click the ‘Add New Connection’ button to configure a fresh connection to your target Office 365 account. If you have already set up a connection, select it from the list and click ‘Connect to Existing’.

      

    • Choose the necessary connection options and click ‘Next’ to continue.

      

    • Choose your preferred secure authentication method for the target Office 365 and click the ‘Login’ button.

      

    • Authenticate on Microsoft sign-in page.

      

    • After logging into your target Office 365 server, select how you’d like to load the mailboxes. EdbMails will automatically display the available mailboxes, but because of Microsoft API limitations, it may only show up to 100. If you have more than 100 mailboxes, choose the ‘Load Mailboxes using .CSV file’ option.

      

    • Step 5: Horde to Office 365 mailboxes mapping

      • Select a preferred option to map the source mailboxes and folders with their corresponding mailboxes and folders on the target Office 365 account.

        

      • EdbMails lets you automatically create the required mailboxes in your target Office 365 account.
      • It also automatically maps your source Horde mailboxes and folders to the matching ones in Office 365, making large migrations easier to manage.

        

    • Step 5: Start Horde to Office 365 migration

      • Verify the mailbox mapping, then click the ‘Start Migration’ button to begin the migration process.

        

      • Click the ‘View Logs’ button to access the full migration report. The report includes comprehensive details such as mailbox mapping, a summary of the overall migration, and the item count for each migrated mailbox and folder.

        

• Step 1: Modify MX records to direct email to Office 365.

  Update MX records for directing email to the new server. Additionally, configure the Autodiscover record to ensure that migrated mailboxes connect smoothly with email clients like Outlook.

• Step 2: Set up a new Outlook profile for users in the new domain

  If users encounter issues connecting Outlook to Office 365 mailboxes, manually configure their Outlook profiles in the new domain.

 For troubleshooting, check out our knowledge base articles. If you have additional questions, browse the FAQs or engage with our customer care team for personalized assistance.