How to Move Email Messages to Another Account
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- ❓ When changing email providers, old email can be difficult to move. I'll look at some of the options.
Moving messages to new email accounts
If your new account has a direct import function, investigate that first, as it might be the most comprehensive solution. Next best is to use a desktop email program and the IMAP protocol to download and then upload your email messages from your old account to new. It may be possible to use an online account’s POP3 remote access to transfer messages as well. Finally, contacts and folders can be difficult, with no single solution.
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0:00 Move email to another account
1:06 The problem
2:14 Automatic Import
4:36 Example moving with Thunderbird
13:40 Import using POP3 to Gmail
15:12 Manually forward all your emails
16:00 The problem with moving contacts
19:50 Why using a desktop program is best
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Very helpful, thanks Leo!
Excellent content - Thanks a lot Mr. Leo (y)
FIVE Stars for this video! I needed to quickly move all my emails and folders of 20+ years from my previous service provider without forwarding them s-l-o-w-l-y. I felt moss growing under my feet while doing that and thought "there HAS to be a better way!" I've been searching for just the right one that cut to the chase and this is it! You hit everything on point and was succinct so I could follow along and get 3 emails into one place, that is now Thunderbird rather than Outlook! Not that Outlook is bad, it's not, but I use my computer for work and my personal business and other items so I certainly don't want them all comingled. But now, if I so choose, I can drag/drop from one to the other! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Didn't you have any problem with the huge amount? I seem not to see the oldest ones. It shows I have 9000+ emails. Now I am trying to weed out the newer junk mails. I could not see for some reason the oldest ones from 2013. Any suggestions?
Complicated
Great video Leo!
this is great! exactly what i was looking for. thanks
That was a very in-depth explanation of this process. Thank you. I think the Thunderbird method is probably the way to go for me since I have quite a few folders to account for.
Great information Sir
Thanks Leo!
Amazing! Thank you for this video! I was banging my head against the wall trying to figure out how I was going to move my clients' email.
Excellent video!
This was the only way I could migrate my e-mails from one Outlook account to another. The Outlook app is a pain in the neck and doesn't even let you move or delete folders.
Your video was really helpful.
Been a big fan of Thunderbird for years and always recommend it to folks.
Using Thunderbird to move your messages about is seriously fast and easy. I've moved thousands of emails this way several times. Yes, the issue of contacts not being as easy to move is a pain but In my opinion not a 'end of the world' style one. As you said, the most vital info (name & email address) does tend to go across quite well and the rest can always be tidied up manually in slow time if you have a full csv from your old provider.
thank you. your videos are very informative.
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Wow!!! Awesome!!!
Thanks Leo, your voice is very low but the advertise between are louder. Generally what is a good way to make laptop become louder?
thanks bro ,you save me
Hello Leo
I really want to thank you; with great appreciation to your clear explanations, I moved all my emails from on gmail account into another. All mails were moved but after completion I found only some of the email in my new account (344 out of about 3500). Any help?
Can you do a video on csv and contacts? Ty
This is a great video. Thank you. Can you help me with a different problem. I can't seem to find an answer anywhere. Emails that are being sent to my online account are being re-directed to a Gmail account. I don't have forwarding on and can't seem to stop this. Can you direct me to a video that address this? Thanks
how do you move one without a imap ?
I wish this video should had published 3 months ago. !
(Lost My 1200+ Important Mails Just Like Farts In Thin Air)
Thanks for the video, Leo! I have a tougher question: what about moving emails from a private personal email address to another email host but with the same personal email address?
That does get a little tricker. I'd be tempted to 1) download all from old, using IMAP. Switch the service being used (I assume you're just moving your email processing from one host to another -- that can take a day or so to "settle", so I'd probably add a delay here before doing the next step.) Then reconfigure the email program to the new provider, and ideally everything will upload. I say "ideally" because I've never done this exact one before. For safety I might, after downloading everything, move it all to local folders not associated with any account. Then when the new server is set up, move all the email back and it should upload. I shouldn't need to say it but I will anyway: back up. Often.
@@askleonotenboom Thank you Leo! I truly appreciate your response and will give this a shot...
I am new to thunderbird - trying to move over a lot of emails... is there a limit to the number of emails you can move over ... having problems .. I am using a Mac ... help please
Hey leo what if i had a game using my
Old email account would i still have to use my old email account to sign in to my game or it doesnt work like that?
Depends entirely on the specific game.
Can you please tell me how to completely block someone from sending an email on Gmail? I can block but it still comes through in the spam mail. Please help & thank you for your time and shares
There's no way to prevent someone from sending you can email. Best you can do is set up a filter that auto-deletes it when it arrives.
What type of mic you used?
AT2020Plus
Can I delete the email account emptied into the other email account
Hi, Leo. Ths method worked great for a time. But now I get this Yahoo mesage every day: "UID Fetch Server Error: Please try again later." Any ideas? Thanks.
Try again later? They may be rate-limiting downloads.
How do I accomplish this if I have email associated with my domain and I am moving my domain to another web hosting provider?
If email is handled by your web host, then 48 hours (or so) after the switch, reconfigure your email program to the new configuration for that web host. Nothing really needs to be "moved", you just need to start picking them up from the new location. (48 hours because it can take 48 hours for email to stop going to the old host and start arriving at the new.)
What happens when you consistently get an error message when trying to use the IMAP configurations that says configuration could not be verified? All credentials are accurate and I keep getting this error regardless of the machine I'm working on. I have not disabled the configuration to my knowledge and it's a private email account I'm trying to switch. Any advice on that problem?
Depends on the email program you're using, and the email service you're trying to connect to.
Would going from yahoo to Gmail. Would this work
Should
@@askleonotenboom this would need to be done on a desktop like you showed . Not on mobile
@@RaccoonFederation007 Definitely
Is Thunder Bird free and secure?
yes.
@@askleonotenboom thank you for sharing your expertise!
How can I arrange the emails from oldest to newest in Thunderbird? I have thousands and just need the older ones. It's also pretty hard to scroll if you have this much emails. The small view of each account in Thunderbird is restrictive to select if you have so much emails. I'm thinking about deleting the newer ones but that kinda defeats the purpose of trying to simplify the process.
@@pjjjsampang Click on the data column header to sort by data. If it's the wrong order, click the column header again to reverse the sort.
@@askleonotenboom thank you!