How to Transfer Emails from One Gmail to Another Gmail Mailbox
If you have two gmail accounts and would like to stop using the old account, you probably will encounter the problem like how to import mails from the old gmail mailbox to another one. Gmail has provided a great feature that allows users to import emails from another mailbox so that you can still keep your important mails in the new gmail mailbox by following the below steps.
1. Login to old gmail account that you would like to transfer mails over to the new gmail account. Click on Setting, then choose Forwarding and POP/IMAP. Under POP Download section, select Enable POP from all mail. Click Save Changes button at bottom to save the setting.
2. Login to new gmail account. Click on Setting follow by Accounts. Under Get mail from other accounts section, click Add a mail account you own link.
3. At the pop up window, type your old gmail address and click Next Step button.
4. On the next screen, type the old gmail password, then select pop.gmail.com at POP server drop down list. Click Add Account button.
5. You will be asked if you want to send email from this new gmail mailbox using old gmail address. Tick Yes if you want to or else just tick No.
6. If you choose yes, then you will be requested to type your preference name for the old gmail address. If you would like to use old gmail address whenever reply an email from this new account, then click Specify a different “reply-to” address link and enter the old gmail address. Click Next Step button to proceed.
7. Click Send Verification button and gmail will send verification code to your old gmail account. This is to verify if you are the owner for old gmail account.
8. Go to your old gmail account, copy the verification code and paste it into the text box, then click Verify button.
Once you have completed all the above steps, your new gmail will start importing all mails from old gmail account. It will take some times to complete the mails transfer depending on your emails’ capacity.
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December 9th, 2009 12:59
this isnt working anymore, google says they dont allow importing email from another gmail account.
December 2nd, 2009 02:15
This process will only transer mail in your Inbox but not the SentMail or ChatMail.
November 26th, 2009 02:26
That was very useful. Worked like a charm, only con was the inability to copy drafts. Thank you for that very efficient tutorial!
November 23rd, 2009 01:43
Nice, very nice, worked.
thank you.
November 18th, 2009 08:12
pls let me know if there is an option to forward all chats from my old gmail account to the new one…
November 18th, 2009 00:16
@Kev1 Labels and read/starred status will not get transferred. You might want to look into Yippiemove.com for that. It’s not free, but it’s only a few bucks and will save you a lot of time.
November 6th, 2009 03:52
I successfully transferred my email to another computer, but in doing so, it deleted access to gmail at my main computer. What do I do now? It opens with a window asking for email address and password, but doesn’t accept either. Help.
November 5th, 2009 18:55
When transferring emails using this method, can the labels be transferred as well?
Or will all the emails be unlabelled after being tranferred to the new gmail account?
October 19th, 2009 05:52
Very sad that this doesn’t work from iPhone (accessing gmail via safari browser, then choose Desktop version vs Mobi version of gmail to access Settings).
As others have stated, steps/paragraphs 2-3-4 do not exist on the Desktop version of my gmail account (via safari) as seen from iPhone. The only option available is to add an email address to your new gmail, but not the full old gmail account (ie, there are no windows in which to type “pop.gmail.com”, etc.). It does let you type in a name, the email addy you want to add (and a new reply-to addy), and lastly there is a window for the verification code.
I was sooo hoping to save having to redo all the labels/folders in the new gmail addy AND from having to forward all the emails individually.
October 18th, 2009 13:28
Thanks for the help! It’s working.
Regards,
Kevin.
August 26th, 2009 18:55
Will somebody answer my July 18th post (see above). Thanks.
August 17th, 2009 03:06
in step 2 gmail will not let you enter another gmail account.
this does not work
August 6th, 2009 17:41
nothing happened, step 2 does not exist:
2. Login to new gmail account. Click on Setting follow by Accounts. Under Get mail from other accounts section, click Add a mail account you own link.
what to do?
July 18th, 2009 20:07
After I transfer emails from the old Gmail account to the new one, in the way described, two questions: (1)Will all emails transferred to the new account remain in my old account as well, and (2) from then on, will every email addressed to my old account be transferred (meaning copied?)to my new account, but remain in the old account as well. In this way, I want to use each account as a backup of the other one.
July 11th, 2009 05:05
Will it import all my mail from my old gmail account with attachments creating and putting them in the folders that the old account had or does all the email from the old account get put just in to the Inbox on the newer account?
Thanks
June 13th, 2009 15:05
@shaaani: yes
@Jonathan: imported mail retains the original date
June 9th, 2009 04:53
this does not work for corporate gmail accounts.
“4. On the next screen, type the old gmail password, then select pop.gmail.com at POP server drop down list. Click Add Account button.”
that step does not work, there’s no dropdown menu:
“Server denied POP3 access for the given username and password.”
I’m not certain what to type in that box
the website is NoDramaStateside[dot]com which makes the log in be: mail.nodramastateside[dot]com
any solution would be greatly apprectiated, thanks!
May 22nd, 2009 14:13
Hi, thanks for the tip! I’m looking to do this, but two concerns:
Once the mail from old gmail is in the new gmail, will the original mail dates be retained? Or will all the imported mail’s date be replaced with the date of the import?
Any idea on how to import the Google chats from old Gmail to new Gmail?
Thanks!!
May 15th, 2009 11:36
could i do this procedure with emails (like hotmail,yahoo) other than gmail ???