Defining a remote mail server for mail migration

This is one of the email migration procedures. For the entire procedures, see “Migrating email from other mail servers (server mode only)”.

1. Go to Mail Settings > Mail Migration > Remote Mail Server.

2. Click New.

3. Enter a name for the remote server.

4. Enter the host name or IP address of the remote server.

5. For Protocol, select either IMAP or IMAPS, FortiMail will act as an IMAP client on the users’ behalf to get email from the remote server.

6. Enter the IMAP port number if different from the default one (port 993).

7. Click Create.