Transferring emails, gmail

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I have a school xxx.edu email that uses gmail.

I want to transfer inbox contents to a different gmail address. I've found a couple online helps through Google, but they seem to be geared towards turning on forwarding. I want to 'move all'.

If I need to find things like POP settings, I'll have to wait a few days until I can contact the IT people at the edu address. A large chunk of emails has disappeared and am trying to move as many as possible in case more disappear.
 
Matthew said:
I have a school xxx.edu email that uses gmail.

I want to transfer inbox contents to a different gmail address. I've found a couple online helps through Google, but they seem to be geared towards turning on forwarding. I want to 'move all'.

If I need to find things like POP settings, I'll have to wait a few days until I can contact the IT people at the edu address. A large chunk of emails has disappeared and am trying to move as many as possible in case more disappear.
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To the best of my knowledge, gmail is just like any other email account - there's no process to move all existing emails to a different account (or service), short of forwarding all of your emails to the new address.

Now, I think you can save them offline for review using Gmail Backup, but I've never tried it before.
 
Is it possible to archive to a local drive, then recover in a different gmail account?
 
Matthew said:
Is it possible to archive to a local drive, then recover in a different gmail account?
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Not that I know of.

What you could do, I suppose, is use an email client, rather than webmail. Then, you could download all of your emails through it, save them in a personal folder, then, connect that client to the new gmail account and open the folder within that account. They'd still only be available offline, but at least it would be through the same client.
 
Thunderbird.
 
Just set up both accounts and drag and drop the emails.
 
Create a Thunderbird account, then it allows you to drag and drop from the gmail account?

Does it work from Thunderbird into the new gmail acct?

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We ended up forwarding one at a time. There weren't too many, but it was cumbersome and did take a while. The next step is to transfer the sent-box. Then try to figure out where the missing emails are, but that might take IT help and that has to wait until Monday.
 
I'm not 100 percent sure what you're trying to do. Why not just set it up as an IMAP account in Thunderbird or some other standard email client, enable local storage, let it synchronize, and then back up the mail locally if what you're trying to do is kill the Gmail account?

Rich
 
What I want is to transfer an inbox and sent box contents from a Gmail account to another Gmail. Current account, for unknown reasons, has lost a large chunk of emails, so this is an attempt to transfer what's left in case they disappear, too. I'm not email savvy so I don't know where to begin, other than brute force.
 
Matthew said:
What I want is to transfer an inbox and sent box contents from a Gmail account to another Gmail. Current account, for unknown reasons, has lost a large chunk of emails, so this is an attempt to transfer what's left in case they disappear, too. I'm not email savvy so I don't know where to begin, other than brute force.
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I have no idea how to transfer mail from one Gmail account to another, not being a big Google fan. I'd probably switch colleges rather than be forced to use Gmail. But that's just me.

I do know that you can set up Gmail in Thunderbird as an IMAP account using imap.gmail.com on port 993. Checking the box for "Keep messages for this account on this computer" under "Synchronization & Storage" should pull and store the messages onto your computer. I'm also pretty sure that's the default setting.

Once the mail is on your computer, you can back it up like any other data.

Rich
 
If you are looking to just archive and not loose what is currently there...just use outlook or a mail app to connect and download all of the emails to your local computer. Once you have them, disconnect you email account from the server setting so they do not automatically sync with the server if any are deleted. From there you can "archive" them to an external hard drive to protect them further.
 
Thunderbird with two accounts set up is an easy drag and drop. Add the control key when dragging and dropping for a copy instead of moving them if you don't want to delete them from the first account.

Imapsync also works fine. A bit overkill for a single account if you're not a command line person, but if you are, ridiculously easy.

Watch out for flags not being copied. Some tools will, some won't.
 
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