[thelist] changing webhosts and losing all sent email on MacMail

Jim Puls jim at nondifferentiable.com
Mon Aug 11 19:45:19 CDT 2008


On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Nan Harbison wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a client who just asked me to change their webhost from Verio  
> to
> Godaddy. It went fine except my client, who uses MacMail has lost  
> all of his
> sent email. What is up with that? I only have experience with PCs and
> Outlook, which would NOT have suddenly deleted all the old sent  
> email just
> because there are slightly different setting for outgoing email.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this? He is pretty upset. I know  
> Macs are
> great for graphics and other stuff, my sister who is not computer  
> savvy at
> all loves how easy her Mac is to use. But most businesses I deal  
> with use
> PCs. This client switched everyone in the office to Macs, when they  
> were all
> comfortable with their PCs. This is probably another  
> discussion..........

Are you sure this person wasn't just storing his sent mail on the  
server?

-> jp



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