Sometimes we need different Gmail accounts for different purposes. We have to open a new account as per our need. This new account only has new emails that it receives.We can also access these emails with their accounts but it becomes complicated.
However we need to transfer our older account emails to a new account to access both mails together in a single Gmail account. In this technical note we will try to understand “How to Move Emails from One Gmail Account to Another” in simple steps.
We will discuss here step by step procedure to transfer emails from one Gmail account to another account in a manual way. But Configure Old Gmail Account.
First of all we have to prepare our old Gmail account for the mail migration process. We use the POP settings for this process.
Sign in your Old Gmail account
Click on Settings
Now, select Forwarding and POP/IMAP option
After that in POP Download choose Enable POP for all mail option
Go to the next part named When messages are accessed with POP
Now,click on the drop down menu and choose what actions you want to do with emails of your old Gmail account, after new account fetches them
Hit on Save changes button
Logout from old account
In this process, you have to collect emails with the help of the new Gmail account.
Sign in to new Gmail account
Now, click on setting icon
Select Settings option
Chose Account & import option
Select Check mail from other accounts option
Hit on Add a mail account icon
Now, enter your old gmail account and click next
Click on ‘Import emails from my other account (POP3)’ and tap next
Check username and type password of old account
Choose pop.gmail.com on POP server
Click port 995
Unmark the message ‘Leave a copy of retrieved messages on the server’
Mark the option reads ‘Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail’
Hit on Add account
Here it says ‘Would you also like to be able to send mail as _____@gmail.com?’, you can select as per your choice. We advise you to select this option, in case you need to reply to the older emails with the older Gmail account.
If you select yes, follow the procedure to set up everything. If not, you are done!
Now, your newly open Gmail account is all set to pick emails from your old Gmail account. I might take some time so wait for a while.
After the above procedure our new Gmail address is all set to receive emails from old accounts. But, sometimes we only need to retrieve emails from old accounts for a certain period and after that we need to stop email migration from old Gmail accounts. Therefore, these are step by step process to stop email migration:
First of all sign in your new Gmail account
Click on settings
Select Account and Import option
Choose Check mail from other accounts
Click on delete option next to your account
Finally, Hit OK
These are processes involved to migrate emails from one account to another and stop it. However, this method appears lengthy and difficult to understand by a novice user. That's why it's recommended to use a third party tool for email migration.
We can transfer emails from one account to another automatically with the help of a third party tool. Cigati Gmail Backup Tool is one such professional software that manages your migration process very smoothly. This professional software can migrate your mails from one account to another account very easily. This tool has a simple and user friendly GUI which helps any novice user.
In this technical guide, we discussed “How to Move Emails from One Gmail Account to Another”. We tried to understand different procedures involved in manual email migration. Also, we discussed how good the third party method is when compared to the manual method. I hope you enjoyed this article and find it helpful.