So, what happens when you make a new Gmail account and want to discard the older one? When you have important emails in your old account, you would like to retain all of those emails, right? Gmail provides you with this feature too, because, honestly, handling two different accounts can get troublesome. So, keep reading to learn to move all your emails from your old Gmail account to your new Gmail account.
How to Easily Move or Transfer Emails from One Gmail Account to Another
The process of doing so has been explained in 3 steps for ease and convenience.
Step I. Prepare your Old Gmail Account
In order to move Emails from one Gmail Account to another, you will have to allow access to retrieve emails from your old account. For this, you will have to enable POP on your old account. Gmail will require POP to retrieve emails from your old account and move them to the new one. Follow the given steps to enable POP (Post Office Protocol):
1.Go to gmail.com and login to your old Gmail account.
2.Click on the gear icon on the top right corner of the page and select Settings from the list.
3.Now click on ‘Forwarding and POP/IMAP’ tab.
4.In the ‘POP download’ block, select the ‘Enable POP for all mail’ radio button. Alternatively, if you want to leave out all the old emails that you already have on your old account and transfer any new emails that you receive now on, select ‘Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on’.
5.‘When messages are accessed with POP’ drop-down menu will provide you the following options to decide what happens to the emails in old account after the transfer:
- ‘keep Gmail’s copy in the inbox’ leaves the original emails untouched in your old account.
- ‘mark Gmail’s copy as read’ keeps your original emails while marking them as read.
- ‘archive Gmail’s copy’ archives the original emails in your old account.
- ‘delete Gmail’s copy’ will delete all the emails from old account.
6.Select the required option and click on ‘Save changes’.
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Step II. Move Emails from Old Gmail Account to New
Once you have all your old emails, you need to move them to the new account. For this, you will need to login to your new account.
1.Logout from your old account and login to your new account.
2.Click on the gear icon on the top right corner of the page and select Settings.
3.Click on the ‘Accounts and Import’ tab.
4.In the ‘Check emails from other account’ block, click on ‘Add an email account’.
5.On the new window, type your old Gmail address and click on ‘Next’.
6.Select ‘Import emails from my other account (POP3)’ and click on ‘Next’.
7.After verifying your old address, type your old account password.
8.Select ‘pop.gmail.com’ from ‘POP server’ drop-down and select ‘Port’ as 995.
9.Make sure that ‘Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server’ is not checked and check ‘Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail’.
10.Decide the label of the imported emails and choose if you want to import them in your inbox or archive them to avoid the mess.
11.Finally, click on ‘Add Account’.
12.It is possible that the server denies access at this step. This might happen in the following two cases, if your old account does not allow access to less secure apps or if you have two-step verification enabled. To allow less secure apps to access your account,
- Go to your Google account.
- Click on security tab from the left pane.
- Scroll down to ‘Less secure app access’ and turn it on.
13.You will be asked if you want to reply to the transferred emails as your old email address or your new email address itself. Select accordingly and click on ‘Next’.
14.If you choose ‘Yes’, you will have to set up the alias email details. When you set up an alias email, you can choose which address to send from (your current address or the alias address). Recipients see that the mail came from whichever address you choose. Continue doing the following steps for this.
15.Enter the required details and select ‘Treat as alias’.
16.Click on ‘Send Verification’. Now, you will have to enter the verification code in the prompt. An email with verification code will be sent to your old Gmail account.
17.Now, leave this prompt as it is and login to your old Gmail account in the Incognito Window. Open the verification email received and copy the verification code.
18.Now, paste this code in the previous prompt and verify.
19.Your Gmail account will be recognized.
20.All your emails will be transferred.
That’s it you have successfully learned How to Move Emails from one Gmail Account to another, but if in future you want to stop transferring emails then you need to follow next step.
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Step III. Stop Transfer of Other Emails
Once you have imported all the necessary emails, and you want to stop importing any further emails from your old account, you will have to remove your old account from your new account. Follow the given steps to stop transferring any further emails.
1.In your new Gmail account, click on the gear icon on the top right corner and select Settings.
2.Click on the ‘Accounts and Import’ tab.
3.In ‘Check emails from other account’ block, search for your old Gmail account and click on the ‘delete’ then click on Ok.
4.Your old Gmail account will be removed.
You have now successfully migrated from your old Gmail account, while not having to worry about any lost emails.
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I hope the above steps were helpful and now you can easily Move Emails from one Gmail Account to another, but if you still have any questions regarding this guide then feel free to ask them in the comment’s section.
