updated mail server on outlook, how to recover old emails?

[Koharski]

I was helping a friend of mine set up his own domain so he would have a professional looking email. The domain was registered through namecheap, and I set up a hosting account with dreamhost because they had a good deal. He was using their email service for a couple months, but dreamhosts shared hosting had terrible problems with spam and many of his outgoing emails were flagged as spam or simply not delivered. Since he didn't have his website up yet, I transferred the DNS back to namecheap to use their email service.

The email works great now, but sadly when I updated the IMAP settings in outlook it deleted all of his old emails. I thought outlook would leave the old ones in place, but I guess I was wrong.

So what i'm wondering, is there a way I can set up the name servers so the email service goes through namecheap but the web hosting side forwards to dreamhost? that way I can log into dreamhosts webmail interface and get the emails back. Alternately, maybe there is a way I can recover the emails that outlook removed automatically?

 

[PliotronX]

I'm not following too well here (sorry long day), IMAP syncs with what's on the server so if I understand correctly, the namecheap host has mail that the Dreamhost does not? What I would do is sync back up with NC and export to a PST so that you can import or just open and access that mail for reference and then sync with DH. I'll have to ponder it some more to see if that's what I'm reading

Ah, okay so the DH was godawful but has mail that the NC host does not have. I would still try to resync with DH (is it still active?) and export to the PST. This will be a lot easier and go more smoothly than manipulating webmail IME. Unfortunately, what you ask is a near impossibility from how I see it. The host is what will sync the mail, you can try to refer with nameservers but the service is going to be poop regardless with DH. If NC doesn't have features you're looking for in a host, check out Zoho mail; it's free on a domain for 20 users and it works mighty well for me!