Move your email from Migadu to FranklyMail
The mailbox password works directly: no app password. The trap is Migadu’s identities: they are extra addresses on the same mailbox, not separate ones, so importing each of them copies the same mail several times.
Which password Migadu wants
The password you set on the mailbox in Migadu’s admin panel. There is no app password to generate and nothing to switch on for a standard mailbox.
Getting it, step by step.
Written against Migadu's current screens: the words in quotes are the words on the buttons.
If you would rather skip the menus: https://admin.migadu.com/ opens the right screen directly, in whatever language your account is set to.
- 1
Sign in to admin.migadu.com and open the domain, then Mailboxes.
- 2
Pick the mailbox you are moving and use its own password. If you do not know it, set a new one here.
Use a mailbox, not an identity. See the warning below: this is the one thing worth getting right on Migadu.
- 3
Check that IMAP access is permitted for that mailbox while you are on the page.
Migadu can disable IMAP per mailbox. It is on for ordinary mailboxes, so this is a glance rather than a step: we have not printed the exact wording of the control because the admin panel is behind a login and we could not verify it.
- 4
In the import form, use imap.migadu.com and the full address as the username.
What to put in the import form.
In the FranklyMail panel, open Mailboxes and find "Bring your old mail across".
imap.migadu.com- IMAP server
imap.migadu.com- Port
- 993, TLS from the first byte.
- Username
- Your full address at Migadu, not just the part before the @.
- Password
- Your mailbox password, from the steps above.
For the technically curious: on 24 August 2026 this server answered AUTH=PLAIN to a CAPABILITY command on port 993. That is what it accepts on the wire; which password it accepts from you is the separate question the section above answers.
What goes wrong with Migadu.
- Identities are not separate mailboxes. Migadu lets you attach extra addresses to one mailbox, and signing in as any of them reaches the same stored mail. Import once per mailbox: importing each identity would copy the same messages again for every address on it.
- The server is always imap.migadu.com. Your own domain goes in the username, never in the server field, which catches people who expect mail.theirdomain.com.
- Migadu’s own migration guide warns that a large mailbox can take hours or days to copy. That is the protocol, not either provider.
Then the part that is the same for everyone.
Getting the password is the only step that differs by provider. The order of the move, what does and does not come across, and the one decision that stops you ending up with two copies of every message are on the main migration page.
How the move worksMoving from somewhere else?
Why switch, and what it costs.
A page about how to move is a poor place to be sold to, so this is the arithmetic and the competition rather than the pitch. Competitor prices were read off each vendor’s own page on 12 August 2026.
- Unlimited mailboxes Every address on the account is included, so you do not have to ration who gets one after the move.
- Multiple domains Bring the other domains too. They cost nothing here, and each one needs only its own DNS records.
- Storage-based pricing Your archive is the thing that costs money here. This is exactly what it costs, before you copy it across.
Compare the cost against someone else
$9/year, and your archive comes with you.
Unlimited mailboxes and aliases on your own domain, 10 GB pooled across the account, 30 days to change your mind.