Leave your old provider
keep the domain and addresses
Point your domain at OpenEmail and create the addresses your company already uses. They land in one stream, and you reply from the exact one written to.
New mail lands here the moment the records go live.
Where it starts
What this looks like today.
Your domain points at the old host
Every address people already write to is served by the provider you want to leave.
The history lives in that account
That mailbox holds years of threads, with the attachments and the filing you did.
Addresses nobody set up
Invoices, alerts and old sign-ups still arrive at names no one remembers creating.
How it works
Running in four steps.
- 01
Add the domain
Settings, Domains, Add generates the records, wherever the domain is registered.
- 02
Publish the records
Copy them at your DNS host, or connect one that supports sync and let it write them.
- 03
Add the addresses
Create each name your old host served, then invite the person who reads it.
- 04
Read them all in one stream
The addresses you created land in one place, and you reply from the exact one written to.
What it runs on
The parts doing the work.
The move runs on these parts of OpenEmail.
Bring the mail you already have: a Google Takeout export from Gmail, or an .mbox file from Apple Mail, Thunderbird and most desktop apps, threaded and dated as it was.
One download from Settings → Export with everything in it: every message and attachment as mbox files another mail app opens, plus your contacts, calendar, labels, rules, templates, notes and settings.
Point any address, or everything a domain accepts, at an outside mailbox instead of this one.
Point several domains at one inbox, subdomains included.
A starter p=none record, printed to copy or written by a sync, never tightened for you.
v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=…
The people you already write to, offered as you type.
In practice
Every piece, walked through.
Four shorter walkthroughs take one part of the move at a time.
Point your domain here and every address on it receives, including ones nobody ever created.
Own the addresses on your domain, and have them land in mailboxes people already use.
Questions
Asked before signing up.
Do I have to move every address at once?
No. Point the ones you are ready for at OpenEmail, and forward any other address, or everything the domain accepts, to an outside mailbox. That destination clicks a confirmation link first.
Can I bring my old mail across?
Yes. Export the old mailbox, with Google Takeout for Gmail or as an .mbox from Apple Mail or Thunderbird, and upload it in Settings under Import. It arrives threaded, dated and filed as it was.
Can I move more than one domain?
Yes. Point several domains at one inbox, subdomains included, and read them all in the same stream.
Nearby
Other jobs for the same mailbox.
Addresses for people and for roles, all on one domain. Each has its own people, keeps the shared sign-off, and stays put when somebody leaves.
