Email
How to migrate your emails to Afrihost
To migrate your old emails to Afrihost, kindly contact your previous host and ask for the control panel credentials.
Please note:
Afrihost will not be held responsible for any loss of data. Please contact our hosting support team if require assistance as this can be complex.
- Complete the registration of your hosted domain with Afrihost.
- Backup or download your emails from the previous host.
Ask the previous host to send you a zip copy of your email folder. - Terminate your account with the previous host.
- Once the domain is live with Afrihost, create the mailbox you want to move the mails to.
Read our article on How to create an email account. - Upload your emails through website manager in ClientZone.
- Go to ClientZone.
- Log in using your ClientZone credentials.
- Select the ‘Hosting’ tab.
- Under the Shared Hosting section, select your domain name.
- Click on the ‘Website Manager’.
- Select the ‘Log into Website Manager’ button.
Via cPanel
- Select ‘File Manager’ under the ‘FILES’ section.
- Select the ‘mail’ directory on the left.
- Select ‘Upload’ at the top of the page and upload your backed-up email folder into the email directory.
Via CWP
- Unfortunately, you cannot do it yourself, please contact our support team for assistance via CWP.

