How do I transfer Gmail to Gmail?
If you use Firefox, you can download Gmail Manager. This allows you to manage multiple gmail accounts at once. Also, Gmail now has forwarding. I forward one gmail address to the other and it just shows up nicely in my first.lastname@gmail.com account. The default reply email is even my main (preferred) account, not the email address it came from. And better yet, it comes straight from the person who sent it, not you @ yourotheraddress or “on behalf of.” It’s just right there, exactly what you’re looking for.
gExodus is a GUI version of GMail Loader that I have been using just this week to transfer email out of my Oulook and up to Gmail. Its uploaded about 98% of messages, there are a few it just won’t do for some reason and I can’t figure out why. But its close enough. Your email will just need to be in mbox format, so grab your gmails in Outlook Express via POP and then put them in the correct folders that you want to maintain. Then navigate to the message store (you can find where it is in the OE options) and copy all the DBX files to a folder on your desktop. Download a program called DBXConv and it will allow you to convert the dbx files to MBOX files. Its a command line program. Just follow the instructions that come with it. Now you can upload your MBox files to Gmail. Run gExodus and point it to the folder on your desktop. OE would have exported each email folder as a file, so you will be uploading 1 “folder” at a time to gmail. This works great because it will allow you to label th
I know this is off-topic, but I use two different Gmail accounts and it works out terrific for me. My “real name” account is for work, school, anything professional, and my “screen name” account is for friends and anonymous email stuff. Gmail even makes it easy to check both, because the logout redirects right back to the login page (unlike Hotmail). And I never worry about accidentally sending an X-rated joke to one of my professors.
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