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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Tried and works, however, it will get all mails and dumps them in the inbox (label).
Is there way to preserve your labels, so that all mails from the old account will keep their labels in the new account?
That would save me a few days work of relabelling all thousands of emails.
hey guys,
at step 4 of your instructions, i typed in the old gmail password, but am NOT able to select at the "POP Server" drop down list because there is no drop down list. when i manually typed in in the "POP Server" box, and clicked on the "Add Account" button, the following message appears:
"There was a problem connecting to pop.gmail.com
Server returned error: "Connection timed out: There may be a problem with the settings you added. Please contact your other email provider to verify the correct server name and port."
can folks help explain this? one possible reason i think this might be happening is because i am transferring emails from my old gmail address to my new gmail address but both addresses have my work domain (__@apano.org rather than __@gmail.com). could this be the problem? either way, i would really appreciate your help!
john
I followed all the instructions and after I entered the verification code, it just brought me back to the gmail sign-in page…and nothing happened. help please?