• 5 2012.01.31 / Viktor Petersson / 2:37

    YippieMove — The future of email migration

    YippieManFor many people, switching email provider without losing their email history is not hard: it’s impossible. With YippieMove it becomes fast and easy.

    This is why we are extremely excited here at WireLoad to unveil something we’ve been working on for almost a year — the brand new YippieMove. The new version is a complete redesign, from the logo to the user interface and back-end. With the new YippieMove, it has never been easier to move email data across email accounts and services, and not to mention in such style. YippieMove is using our reliable email migration back-end which can swiftly push data across email providers.

    If you’re looking for a scalable turn-key solution for migrating data, YippieMove is the answer. Our current clients range from small individual users, to top Google Apps-resellers, to university clients who are migrating their entire student body between providers. Nobody is too big or too small for YippieMove.
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  • 0 2011.12.18 / Viktor Petersson / 6:53

    Mirapoint Message Server-migration without resetting users’ passwords

    Before we get started, we should point out that we have not tested this in practice. We are only basing this on public information (primarily from this article). Yet, it sounds reasonable, and feel free comment below and correct us.

    Similar to both Dovecot and Microsoft Exchange, Mirapoint Message Server also support logging into users’ accounts via the admin account by using a modified username-string.
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  • 0 2011.12.14 / Viktor Petersson / 6:54

    Why we do not support PayPal in YippieMove

    In the years since we first launched YippieMove, we’ve been contacted by numerous customers asking us to accept PayPal. While we have accepted PayPal from a few clients who were based in countries where Google Checkout wasn’t supported, this is rare (and we’ve transferred the funds away from PayPal quickly). Generally clients who are asking to use PayPal do not fall in this category.

    There is however a very good reason why we do not accept PayPal payment: it’s simply not a good experience. It’s not good for our customers, and it’s not good for us. PayPal has a well established record of mistreating its customers with little or no recourse. Once PayPal has arbitrarily frozen the money of a customer, whether it’s a merchant or private user, they provide virtually no recourse. There is no-one you can call, they are not regulated like a bank, and there is no ombudsman. Your money is simply beyond your reach, at the mercy of a few moody customer service reps.

    That’s just not an experience we want to provide to our users. Nor, frankly, one we can accept for our own business.
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  • 0 2011.12.11 / Viktor Petersson / 6:13

    How does dual deliver/split delivery work?

    One thing that many people are confused about is dual delivery (aka split delivery). Simply put, this means that emails will be delivered to two email systems simultaneously. This is often used to keep a new and a legacy system live in parallel. It is also frequently used during email migrations to ensure that no downtime occurs.

    The concept of dual delivery isn’t very hard to wrap your head around, but how does it work? When reading forums, some people are confused about this. Some people think that it is sufficient to have two servers with the same priority level in the MX-record. This is not the case. Simply having two MX-records with the same priority will load balance between the two, but not deliver to both.
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  • 0 2011.12.08 / Viktor Petersson / 10:24

    YippieMove now supports Office 365

    If you’re thinking of moving into or out of Microsoft’s Office 365, you’re in luck. YippieMove can now help you migrate email data both in and out.

    Unfortunately the workflow isn’t as streamlined as we’d like it to be due to the fact that the server-address differs between each instance. Regardless if you are moving to or from Office 365, you need to locate the address to the IMAP-server. To get this data, log into Outlook Web App (OWA) and go to “Options” in the upper right-hand corner, and then click on “Settings for POP, IMAP, and SMTP access…“.

    This should bring up a new window with the information. The address should look something like xyz.outlook.com.

    Once you’ve have this piece of information, you can now use YippieMove. In Step 1 (or 2), provide YippieMove with your full email-address as the username, your password. Select the option ‘Other’ and enter the address you found above in the ‘Host’ field, and check the SSL-checkbox (which should change the port to 993).

    If you’re performing a batch-migration, simply use the same settings as mentioned above for src/dst_host, src/dst_host, src/dst_port, src/dst_ssl in the CSV-file.

    Unfortunately, there seem to be no way to authenticate to the users’ mailboxes via the admin-account like we described in this article with Office 365.

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