Fasthosts Exchange 2010 to 2019 Email Migration
From the 24 February 2020 Fasthosts our hosting provider have started to migrate legacy mailboxs that they have hosted on their Exchange 2010 system over to Exchange 2019 as support for Exchange 2010 ended on the 14 January 2020.
The legacy mailboxes that being migrated are: Exchange 2010, Starter, Starter Plus and Professional.
Mail Lite and Mail Extra mailboxes do not use Exchange so they are not affected by the migration.
Exchange 2013/2016 mailboxs are not migrated automaticly but please contact us for upgrade options as there is a price/storage space change for upgrading the mailboxes.
If your email is hosted on Office 365 or G Suite (formaly Google Apps) you will not be affected by this migration as it is not a part of Fasthosts.
To find out what mailbox type you have, login to https://admin.livemail.co.uk
Your username is your email address and the password is the one that we provided to you when we set up the email account. If you do not have this handy we can do a password reset for you if you contact us.
Migration of mailboxs can take up to 72 hours once started but most of the time it is quicker than this. Durring the process your mailbox might become unavailable for a short time.
After the migration you may need to update your email client settings and/or reinput your password.
Some users would have a new webmail client to use which can be accessed via https://admin.livemail.co.uk
Some older email client software might not work due being obsolete. More details are further down this page.
Email Client Settings
Users using older connection types will need to update port numbers and enable SSL as non-encrypted ports (25, 110, 143) will nolonger work.
Please double check the server address as we noticed that some have incorrectly set it something else. Like putting in .com when it should be .co.uk or even putting in their own domain like mail.example.co.uk instead of mail.livemail.co.uk
Guides on how to set up your email clients can be found at: https://resellers.fasthosts.co.uk/euf/assets/pdf-guides/Mailbox_Setup_Guide.pdf
| Incoming Mail Server (IMAP) | |
|---|---|
| Server | mail.livemail.co.uk |
| Port | 993 |
| Connection Type | SSL |
| Incoming Mail Server (POP) | |
|---|---|
| Server | mail.livemail.co.uk |
| Port | 995 |
| Connection Type | SSL |
| Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) | |
|---|---|
| Server | smtp.livemail.co.uk |
| Port | 465 |
| Connection Type | SSL |
Supported Email Clients
Support for some older email clients and even some operating systems is being dropped as they don’t have modern security standards to connect to the mail server.
Outlook
It is recommended to upgrade to a newest verison of Outlook to maintain compatibility.
Outlook 2010 and below is officaly nolonger supported by Exchange 2019.
There is a update you can try for Outlook 2010 at: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/
However the update might not work and support for it will be short lived as Outlook 2010 end of life is 13 October 2020.
Outlook 2013 may work with the latest service pack depending on the OS you are using.
For the update visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/
Outlook Office 365 you can get the updated version from https://portal.office.com providing your subscription is still active.
Outlook 2016 will work aslong it is at the latest version.
If you got Outlook 2016 via Office 365 you can get the updated version from https://portal.office.com providing your subscription is still active.
If you bought Outllok/Ofiice 2016 standalone, visit: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/
Outlook 2019 is designed to work with Exchange 2019 and should not have any issues.
Thunderbird
Please make sure that you are using the latest version. Thunderbird is available for free at: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/
Apple Mail
Make sure to select Other or IMAP/SMTP and not Exchange when asked to set up your email account.
Other Clients
Other clients should still work providing they are using IMAP/SMTP. Make sure that you are using the latest version of the software.
Operating System Support
Windows
Officaly Exchange 2019 only supports Windows 10 but older versions of Windows may still work providing that the email client you are using has the lastest version installed.
Windows 7 is no longer supported as support was ended on the 14 January 2020 by Mircosoft.
Windows 8 and 8.1 is currently in its extended life cycle stage. Its mainstream support ended on the 9 January 2018.
Some older versions of Windows 10 support will be ending soon. Most users don’t need to worry about this as Windows does automatic updates.
More info can be found at the Windows lifecycle fact sheet.
MacOS
One of the three most recent versions of macOS. When a new major version of macOS is released, the macOS and the previous two versions.
Select Other or IMAP/SMTP and not Exchange when using the built in mail app.
iOS/iPadOS
You can get the latest version via: https://support.apple.com/ios/update
Select Other or IMAP/SMTP and not Exchange when using the built in mail app.
If you use a different app, the app store should say if your device is compatible or not when you install it.
Android
Support depends on email app you are using and phone model.
The play store should say if your device is not compatible.
You can check the version of Android you are using the guide at: https://support.google.com/android/answer/7680439
Webmail / Outlook Web Access
The address for your webmail client will change depending depending on what type of mailbox you have.
If you had access and used the Outlook 2010 Web Access (OWA 2010) site. It has now been replaced with the Outlook 2019 Web Access (OWA 2019).
In order to access the correct webmail client. Please login to the Mailbox Control Panel at: https://admin.livemail.co.uk/ where the link to webmail client you need will be in the sidebar.
Webmail/OWA will only support the latest version of web browsers.:
Support for Internet Explorer has ended please replace it with any of the browsers listed above
Mailbox Control Panel
The mailbox control panel has mostly the same as before but some setting may have moved into the webmail client depending on your mailbox type.