In today’s world, organizing emails has become an essential thing in professional and personal life. Many people want to organize all their emails in one place, like in a Gmail account. So they want to migrate their old emails from an IMAP account to a Gmail account. In this blog, we have written an automated method to migrate IMAP emails into Gmail accounts.
Overview
IMAP is an Internet Message Access Protocol that allows an email client to access and manage emails stored on an email server. It allows users to access and view emails from the server and synchronises the changes made in the email client to the server.
Gmail is a well-known email service provided by Google Inc. With Gmail, you can access emails from anywhere and anytime. Gmail is now available with Google Workspace, and apart from emails, it also manages contacts, calendars, etc.
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Reasons to Migrate IMAP Emails into Gmail Account
- Apart from emailing, Gmail provides other services like Google Drive, Sheets, Docs, Slides, etc.
- Protect your email account from unauthorized access, malware attacks, and unwanted threats.
- With a stable internet connection, you can access Google data from anywhere and anytime.
- You can use the free cloud storage space of up to 15 GB provided by Google to save photos, documents, emails, etc.
Smart and solution to import emails from an IMAP server to a Gmail account
The best and most advanced solution for exporting IMAP emails to Gmail is to use eSoftTools IMAP to Gmail Migration software. With a few clicks, it can migrate IMAP emails to Gmail without any hassle. It can easily migrate emails from IMAP accounts to Gmail while maintaining the structure and formatting of the emails.
Key features of IMAP to Gmail Migration Software
- Preview Emails: The software allows you to preview emails, contacts, calendars, tasks, and files/folders in a tree structure within the preview panel.
- Email Filter: Allows to filter emails according to Date Range (From and To).Â
- Migrate and Backup Cloud-Based Applications: The software supports migrating and backing up IMAP-based webmail applications such as Office 365, Yahoo Mail, Outlook.com, Gmail, Yandex, AOL, Zoho, Live.com, and more.
- Easy GUI: It has a user-friendly graphical interface that simplifies the backup and migration process of IMAP email accounts.
- Windows Compatibility: Compatible with all editions of Windows OS, including Windows 11, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP, and older versions.
- Maintain folder structure: It maintains the data formatting and data structure during migration and maintains meta properties (To, cc, bcc, Subject, From)
The step-by-step approach of IMAP to Gmail Migration Software
Download, install, and launch eSoftTools IMAP to Gmail Migration software in your system.
Choose the IMAP Server option from the list of options in the drop-down menu.
Enter your IMAP Server account credentials such as email address, password, hostname and port no.
Preview IMAP Server emails and files/folders in the preview panel and select files/folders to convert.
Click on the Import into Cloud button and choose the option Import to Gmail.
Enter your Gmail account credentials, such as your Gmail email address and Google Application password.
Apply the email filtering feature to filter emails according to the Date Range( From and Top) if you want to apply.
Click on the Convert button and start the migration from the IMAP Server to Gmail.
Conclusion
This blog explains the reasons and an automated method to Migrate IMAP Emails into Gmail Account There are manual methods also available, but they are time-consuming and need technical expertise. In the automated method, you can use the trial version, in which you can migrate 25 emails from each IMAP folder to a Gmail account. If you are satisfied with the migration process, you can purchase the software.
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