How Do I Move Emails From One Account To Another?

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How Do I Move Emails From One Account To Another?

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✔️ Moving email from one account to another just takes some configuration, and some drag-and-drop.
✔️ Moving emails
To move emails from an old account to a new one, use a desktop email program supporting multiple accounts and IMAP, like Thunderbird or Microsoft Outlook. Configure the program with both your old and new email accounts, then simply drag and drop emails from one account’s folder to the other. IMAP ensures that changes made in the desktop email program are reflected online.
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0:00 Move emails from one account to another
2:40 Turn IMAP on in Gmail
3:50 Using a desktop email program
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10:00 Merging your email
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@michaelmeichtry316 6 ай бұрын

Great video! I set this up around four years ago, sharing Gmail and Yahoo email. Your tutorial explains perfectly how to implement the Thunderbird settings. I originally set up Thunderbird on Windows XP. The program basically worked, yet was slow and a little buggy, since the hardware was older, and mostly because Windows XP doesn't support the latest version of Thunderbird. After installing the newest version of Thunderbird on a newer PC running Windows 10, the program worked like a charm. The TBird documentation specified Window 7 as the minimal OS-level. I don't know if Thunderbird continues active development, but as your video demonstrates, it gets the job done. Easy as drag and drop ! Kudos!

@Realtor_Kim_Little 4 күн бұрын

This is a great video! I was able to move my email and not lose much of anything. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

@SECTofBlind 29 күн бұрын

This was what we needed! Thanks for the clear instruction!

@697hotas7 6 ай бұрын

Thanks Leo for the top content you produce, very helpful 🙏, and your perfect language pronunciation is really appreciated as non native English speakers 👍

@1000left 6 ай бұрын

Great video!!!! Thank you!! I believe there is also an export/import method that might be a good option as well.

@louannhoagland4665 3 ай бұрын

I just watched your KZfaq video on moving Outlook emails to Thunderbird. Great information. I am canceling my Outlook 365 service and want to be able to retain emails and folders. How do I export the folders to Thunderbird? Also, if there are attachments on the email, will they be included when it transfers to Thunderbird?

@BusyBusinessHostingNPromotion 2 ай бұрын

Clever. I was going to look for an export

@shadowminister4090 6 ай бұрын

Great video, Leo. I have a Yahoo and 2 Gmail accounts and Thunderbird might make things easier. I'm not a fan of Gmail's Labels - I like Folders, so maybe Thunderbird could also help there. That said, I understand that Thunderbird is really only a Desktop program at present, and they are adapting the K9 App to be Thunderbird on mobile devices.

@ianyorke2617 6 ай бұрын

Very, very useful video. Are there any published limits for how many emails you can transfer at any one time?

@askleonotenboom 5 ай бұрын

No. My guess is that if there's a limit at all it'll depend on the email services involved.

@Vanguardsman 2 ай бұрын

Leo, I would like to move about 10,000 emails form Yahoo to Gmail. In copying them over, how do I apply the correct Gmail labels (like Inbox, Draft, et al)? Thanks.

@JRWinter 5 ай бұрын

I forgot to mention that I used the Portable version of Thunderbird with zero issues; however, I was wondering if I ever deleted that Portable version of Thunderbird altogether, would my email also be deleted?

@askleonotenboom 5 ай бұрын

Depends on what you delete. Make sure to back up first, and understand just where your email is stored.

@Wol747 6 ай бұрын

Thunderbird has been my email app for years - I wouldn’t consider any other.

@phillatella6470 6 ай бұрын

K9 mail for android

@GadgeteerZA 6 ай бұрын

BetterBird is also good and based on Thunderbird

@nzoesch 2 ай бұрын

When trying to enter the second email “couldn’t find the settings” and is asking for the “port” number. How do you find that? Thank you!

@askleonotenboom 2 ай бұрын

Ask your email provider that you're trying to connect to. It should be standard information they provide somewhere.

@mandyforshaw 4 ай бұрын

Hi my emails moved from mail to outlook on my iPad, I want them back in my mail email account but it says my password is wrong it won’t let me change my password help

@user-fb6mo3li1h Ай бұрын

Hi Leon. Thanks for your detailed videos. I would like to ask: As part of the policy of reducing the storage volume in Gmail and since my email volume in Gmail was over 17 GB - Google offered me to upgrade the storage, for a fee of course, otherwise the account will be frozen and it will not be possible to receive and send emails anymore. I used the idea of transferring emails from account to account using Thunderbird. I selected a folder in the old and full email that showed a volume of 3 GB and moved it to the new email. It took a while but it all worked out. Now the folder in the original email is empty and in the new email - full. The problem is that even though the folder I transferred is shown in the original email as empty - the overall volume of the email box - has not changed and no space has been freed up. Why is this and what are we doing, and the whole purpose of the transfer was to clear the place and reduce the volume of email.

@askleonotenboom Ай бұрын

1) Check the trash folder. Might well be taking up space there. 2) I've notes that "spaced used" calculations aren't always real-time. Check back later.

@user-fb6mo3li1h Ай бұрын

@@askleonotenboom Thank you for your response and attention. It wasn't in the trash, that's the first thing I checked. I am analyzing what I have done and it is possible that this is where the error lies. I entered the folder (which is actually a label) and transferred its contents to the other email. Indeed, I see the emails in the second email address and at the same time also see that the emails have disappeared from the first email. Therefore, I wondered why the space was not cleared in the first mile. However, in the meantime on second thought, I understand that in the transfer operation I transferred I only transferred the emails from the label and indeed the content of the label was empty but the emails remained and were not deleted from the first email. The contents of the label were deleted, but all those emails remained unlabeled and therefore continue to take their place. Does it make sense what I'm writing here that is the cause of the "failure" in my eyes. And thanks again for your investment.

@keri3502 4 ай бұрын

I'm wanting to move my Outlook 365 emails and folders to a Gmail account. Everything went smoothly except that I don't see all of my Outlook folders though my Gmail labels show up great. Did I miss something and/or how do I correct? Thank you

@askleonotenboom 4 ай бұрын

Gmail doesn't have folders, only labels. How things get organized kinda depends on the steps you took to move the email. askleo.com/how-do-gmail-labels-relate-to-folders/

@danbromberg 2 ай бұрын

I don't want to send all my emails, only the oldest ones (from a date I will specify). Can that be done with Thunderbird?

@askleonotenboom 2 ай бұрын

You can sort by date and then select only those you want to move.

@MikeSalazar-y6e 6 күн бұрын

How do I get rid of the donate page. I already donated?

@askleonotenboom 6 ай бұрын

It’s easier than you think.

@Johny40Se7en 14 күн бұрын

How do I move all emails from my BT account to my Gmail account, around 12700 emails?... Is it even doable with Thunderbird? 🤔

@askleonotenboom 14 күн бұрын

Should be, using the technique outlined in the video.

@chidankotegar1828 Ай бұрын

I want to move emails from one Gmail to another how can I do it please reply

@askleonotenboom Ай бұрын

The video you just commented on applies.

@glasslinger 4 ай бұрын

Seems like just forwarding the email to the other account would be more straight forward?

@askleonotenboom 4 ай бұрын

You lose all the "From:" information in the email program. Everything looks like it came FROM your old account. Yes,. the original info is still in the body, but you can no longer use it for search and/or sort in the destination (or it at least becomes more cumbersome).