• Not everyone is a big fan of Gmail, and many decide after a while to migrate to a new mail client.
• The guide below will show you how you can import old mail into Gmail on Windows 10.
• Need more help with your email clients? Go to our Email Hub for more articles that can help.
• If you like tutorials and learning new things, you may also like our How-To section.

XINSTALL BY CLICKING THE DOWNLOAD FILE

• DriverFix has been downloaded by 0 readers this month.

Gmail is one of the most popular webmail services, and if you use any of Google’s services you probably have a Gmail account.

One problem when creating a new email account can be your old email messages, and if you have important email messages that you want to keep, today we’re going to show you how to import old mail into Gmail on Windows 10.

Quick Tip:

If importing your emails from one client to another is your priority, then you might as well go for Mailbird, since that is its specialty.

Besides being fast, modern and reliable, Mailbird’s main selling point is its ability to automatically import the entire contents of an email account, allowing you to have them all under one UI.

Mailbird

If you need to import your Gmail emails into an email client, might as well do it using the based, namely Mailbird.

How to import old mail into Gmail on Windows 10 PC?

1. Use Import mail and contacts feature

Click the Gear icon in the top right corner and choose Settings.

Click on Import mail and contacts link.

Now sign in to your old email account by following the instructions on the screen.

Gmail comes with a feature that allows you to import old emails from different email providers just with a couple of clicks.

By doing so old emails from your old account will be forwarded to your new Gmail account automatically and you’ll be able to access them in Gmail. Keep in mind that you should inform all your contacts that you won’t be using the old email address anymore.

2. Import all old emails and forward all new emails to your Gmail account

Set When messages are accessed with POP to keep Gmail’s copy in the inbox.

If you create a new Gmail account and you want to receive email messages that are sent to your old email account, you need to change a few settings.

This method works for both Gmail and third-party email accounts, but keep in mind that some email providers might not support this feature.

After changing these settings on your old Gmail account, you need to configure your new Gmail account. To do that, follow these steps:

As we already mentioned, this feature also works with third-party email providers, but in order to use it you need to enable POP on your old email account. After doing that, try to add your old email account by using the steps above.

If you’re not able to add it, you might want to contact your old email provider and ask them if POP is supported on your account.

Expert Tip: Some PC issues are hard to tackle, especially when it comes to corrupted repositories or missing Windows files. If you are having troubles fixing an error, your system may be partially broken. We recommend installing Restoro, a tool that will scan your machine and identify what the fault is.
Click here to download and start repairing.

If you want, you can stop receiving new emails from your old account by changing few settings. To do that, follow these steps:

Keep in mind that deleting your old email account will only prevent new emails from being forwarded to your new account. Any old emails that you received will remain on your account.

As you can see, this method is a bit complicated, but it allows you to use your old email account alongside your new Gmail account without any problems.

This is extremely useful if you want to keep using your old email account or if you didn’t notify all your contacts about the change of your email address.

One flaw of this method is that it doesn’t allow you to import contacts from your old email account, but you can easily import contacts manually to Gmail. If you want to import contacts from non-Gmail account, you need to do the following:

In the menu on the left click More and choose Import.

Select the desired method.

To import contacts from another Gmail account, you need to first export your contacts as a CSV file. To do that, follow these steps:

Open old Google Contacts and choose More > Export.

Select All contacts and choose Google CSV format.

Now you need to import those contacts to your new Gmail account. To do that follow these steps:

Choose More > Import.

Now click on Choose File button and locate the .csv file that you created.

3. Import old emails from desktop client

If you use a desktop email client, such as Thunderbird, for your emails, you should know that all your emails are saved locally on your PC. If your email provider doesn’t offer webmail service, you can still import your emails from your desktop client.

To do that, you need to enable IMAP for your Gmail account and add Gmail to your email client. After doing that, simply select the emails that you want in your old email account and drag them to Gmail’s Inbox folder in your email client.

Keep in mind that this process can take a while depending on the number of email messages, so you’ll have to be patient.

One of the biggest problems, when you’re switching to a new email account, are your emails, but as you can see, you can easily import old emails into Gmail by using any of our solutions.

ncG1vNJzZmivmaOxsMPSq5ypp6Kpe6S7zGigpqifp8Fuu8udZKaZmaF6qrrTqGSgpZGeuW7DyKebqK%2BjYn5xew%3D%3D