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Initial setup away from Microsoft 365

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Hi: I currently have three email accounts tied to one domain name, hosted with Godaddy. One of those emails is a business critical email. Can't run the risk of it being down. I need it to work. I hate microsoft 365 and am looking to move over to Thunderbird. A couple of questions: how do I switch from (outlook.office.com) over to thunderbird. Can I leave the domain hosted with GoDaddy or do Inned to switch hosting services. Can I bring the emails over one at a time or do they need to be all at once. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks CN

Hi: I currently have three email accounts tied to one domain name, hosted with Godaddy. One of those emails is a business critical email. Can't run the risk of it being down. I need it to work. I hate microsoft 365 and am looking to move over to Thunderbird. A couple of questions: how do I switch from (outlook.office.com) over to thunderbird. Can I leave the domain hosted with GoDaddy or do Inned to switch hosting services. Can I bring the emails over one at a time or do they need to be all at once. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks CN

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Do you want to replace a Microsoft e-mail client, e.g., Outlook on Windows, or do you want to replace a Microsoft account or both?

You cannot switch from outlook.office.com to Thunderbird. You can switch from accessing your outlook.office.com account in one e-mail client, e.g., Outlook (or webmail), to a different e-mail client, e.g., Thunderbird. And you can switch from using outlook.office.com to using a different account from a different e-mail service provider, e.g., Gmail.

If you want to replace a Microsoft e-mail client with Thunderbird, that is easy, but transferring messages that were saved locally in your old e-mail client will require some effort and maybe expense.

If you want to replace your Microsoft 365 account, you will have to establish a new account with some e-mail service provider, then set up the new account in Thunderbird. And you would need a plan for transferring the messages from the old account to the new account.

Where the domain is hosted is independent or other considerations. My domain and my e-mail are hosted by different services.

Regardless of what you do with e-mail clients, your business e-mail account should always work in webmail.

"Email" has come to mean three different things. I do not know if you are asking about accounts or messages. You can move one account at a time on your own schedule. I think that's what you wanted to know.

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