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Migrating from Ymail to Gmail
Deozaan:
Is there a way to migrate from yahoo to gmail without losing any data? I need to maintain records of all my emails, more than a decade ago.-kalos (November 15, 2019, 09:10 AM)
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1. Install email client with IMAP support
2. Add your GMail account to it using IMAP
3. Add your Yahoo account to it using IMAP
4. Drag all the messages in the Yahoo account to the GMail account
5. Go make coffee
Which is basically what sphere said above since it's the easiest way to do it.
-4wd (November 16, 2019, 02:34 AM)
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I didn't know this was so easy!
Would this work from IMAP to POP? i.e., so I can archive my Gmail (IMAP) to a private account (POP) which I control and have a local copy of?
wraith808:
GMail has a feature to automatically forward messages being received at GMail to a different mail account. I make use of that feature. You should check if Yahoo has a similar feature. If it does (and chances are high, because it is a basic feature that almost all mail server software have built in), that would solve your problem of people stubbornly sending mails to your Yahoo mail account.
-Shades (November 15, 2019, 11:57 PM)
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This is what I did to migrate from one GMail account to another, and it worked like aces.
4wd:
Is there a way to migrate from yahoo to gmail without losing any data? I need to maintain records of all my emails, more than a decade ago.-kalos (November 15, 2019, 09:10 AM)
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1. Install email client with IMAP support
2. Add your GMail account to it using IMAP
3. Add your Yahoo account to it using IMAP
4. Drag all the messages in the Yahoo account to the GMail account
5. Go make coffee
Which is basically what sphere said above since it's the easiest way to do it.
-4wd (November 16, 2019, 02:34 AM)
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I didn't know this was so easy!
Would this work from IMAP to POP? i.e., so I can archive my Gmail (IMAP) to a private account (POP) which I control and have a local copy of?
-Deozaan (November 16, 2019, 04:35 AM)
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Sorry, I've only done IMAP to IMAP but there's nothing to stop you creating both IMAP and POP settings for the same account in the email client.
I suffix IMAP accounts with [IMAP] so I can tell them apart from POP, (using Thunderbird).
BTW, another email client based on Thunderbird: Interlink
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