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Migrating Local Email into the Cloud?

posted by janrinok on Thursday March 20 2014, @09:18PM   
from the and-clouds-can-disappear dept.

Jaruzel writes:

"I have an on-premises Microsoft Exchange system that hosts my families personal email, which has gone through several upgrades over the years. However Exchange 2013 is now too bloated for my needs, and I find myself wanting to migrate my email services to a cloud provider.

The kicker is that although I only have about 5 live accounts, I have over 200 email aliases attached to those accounts. Most of the cloud providers out there do not support this configuration, or charge per 'address' which makes the cost prohibitive for personal email.

Do any SoylentNewsers know of, or can advise the best way to migrate this lot out of my garage without losing all my aliases or having to pay through the nose?"

• catch all (Score: 2) by tdk on Friday March 21 2014, @04:09PM

  by tdk (346) on Friday March 21 2014, @04:09PM (#19356) Homepage Journal

  I got the 100 figure from this page https://www.fastmail.fm/help/features_aliases.html [fastmail.fm], but this contradicts what it says elsewhere on their site. Confusingly they seem to have 'service levels' and 'plans' that are not the same thing.
  Back On-Topic a little. I second what someone else has said. Most email service providers let you have a catch-all address (*@domain.com), that is an alias for one account.
  In addition good email clients will let you set up rules to move emails (even between accounts) based on 'to' addresses, and gmail also lets you do this.
  Combine these two and you can easily direct any email address to any account.
  This is the system I use in fact, and I can easily make up ad-hoc addresses like thisisfromsoylent@squte.com, confident that I will get anything sent to them.

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