Introduction
MDaemon is a popular email server among small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with features such as domain support, mobile emails, a web-based email client, spam-filtering, blocking, mailing lists, and Outlook email support. Its low cost is ideal for small businesses that want to install a mail server on their premises or use it as a MDaemon private cloud. MDaemon also includes a hosted email server and a dedicated email archiving server for email archiving and management. Given all of the benefits of MDaemon, it is no surprise that it is used by a large number of businesses. Many users, however, also prefer to migrate to a cloud-only service, such as Office 365, to avoid the on-premise server environment. This can occur for a variety of reasons, including when a large company acquires a smaller one, when businesses grow and require more enterprise level applications and features, or when a company decides to migrate to a more established brand, such as Microsoft. Let's look at how to move MDaemon to Office 365.
User Query
As previously stated, many users are looking for ways to migrate to Office 365 for a variety of reasons, and we receive queries from them asking how to easily transfer their mailboxes. In light of the aforementioned discussions, we present a step-by-step procedure for the same.
“We use MDaemon for our on-premise mail server and are relatively new to Office 365. We'd like to move our data from the former to the latter as soon as possible. We are looking for advice on the most cost-effective way to accomplish this. Could anyone recommend the best way to migrate to O365? Thanks”
How to migrate from MDaemon to Office 365?
To migrate MDaemon to Office 365, set up your source and destination accounts on Outlook and move mails from one to another by using the PST upload option. Alternatively, you can migrate using IMAP by creating migration batches in the Exchange admin center (EAC) and updating the DNS records.
Migrating to Office 365 with EdbMails IMAP migration is another simple approach if you're looking for a cost-effective and automated solution.
Steps to migrate MDaemon to Office 365
The method described above is ideal if you only need to migrate a few mailboxes to Office 365. Another option is to create a list of user mailboxes to migrate, then create a migration batch and migrate to Exchange online using an IMAP connection (migration endpoint). As long as you don't delete the migration batch, you can sync any incoming emails to MDaemon with Office 365. Both of these methods have the drawback of requiring manual labor and taking a long time. If you are looking for an automated method to directly migrate your emails to Office 365, EdbMails IMAP migration can help you step-by-step without requiring any manual work.
MDaemon to Office 365 migration using EdbMails
EdbMails IMAP migration is a customized tool that can handle even large mailboxes and file sizes when migrating to Microsoft 365. Simply connect your source (MDaemon) to the target (Office 365) and start migrating. Additional filter options are available to assist you in selecting and migrating specific folders and items from your mailboxes, and the application's graphical user interface ensures that the operation can be completed without any manual work. Let's go over the migration steps with EdbMails.
Download the EdbMails application and click 'Start Your Free Trial' to start using the trial version of the software.
- Step 1: Get the IMAP server details from your MDaemon’s mail server
There are a few things you should do before you begin the migration. Check that Office 365 user mailboxes have been configured with the appropriate license and that they are accessible. Make a backup of the mailboxes in your source MDaemon and obtain the server information for an IMAP connection.
Select ‘IMAP migration’ on the EdbMails main interface and enter the HostName, Port Number and user credentials on the connection window.
- Host Name: secure.emailsrvr.com (Depending on which domain you’ve configured with MDaemon server)
- Port Number : 993 with SSL/TLS configured
- Email Address/Username and Password for your account
If you have multiple mailboxes to migrate from MDaemon server, select ‘Multiple Server’ and follow the instructions to connect to multiple mailboxes.
EdbMails is highly secure and does not retain or store user credentials on its servers. It uses secure modern OAuth 2.0 authentication with TLS encrypted connection between the tenants.
- Step 2: Select the folders and mailboxes from the source server
EdbMails displays all mailboxes and their items after you log in to your source MDaemon server. Choose which ones you want to migrate and connect to your Office 365 tenant. There are additional 'Settings', such as folder and filter options, to help you choose items based on Date, Subject, Sender, and so on. This is useful if you want to customize and migrate specific items.
- Step 3: Connect to the target Office 365 server, perform mailbox mapping
Select 'Migrate to Office 365', as shown in the screenshot, and connect to the target Office 365 tenant to retrieve all the user mailboxes. Verify and map the mailboxes between the source and target to start the migration.
- Step 4: Verify MDaemon to Office 365 migration and update the MX records
EdbMails generates a detailed log report with a rundown of the migrated mailboxes, folders, and count. Verify the results and point the MX records to Office 365 on the source server in order to continue receiving emails in your target mailboxes.
- Step 1: Get the IMAP server details from your MDaemon’s mail server
Final Thoughts
While the MDaemon mail server is best suited for small and medium-sized businesses, there is a fine line when businesses scale up and require even more features to meet their needs. This is where Office 365 comes into play, and questions about mail migration are on the rise. Migrating to O365 via manual PST sync is suitable for smaller mailbox sets but becomes elaborate and complex as the number of mailboxes to migrate grows. EdbMails is a Microsoft-partnered automated solution that can easily connect to your mailboxes and migrate them without causing data loss or requiring technical expertise.
