How to Migrate Frontier Email to Gmail Account?

Do you want to migrate Frontier emails to a Gmail account, but don’t know a reliable method for doing so? If yes, then read this blog to the end. Here, in this blog, we have explained a reliable and professional tool that will help in migrating Frontier emails to a Gmail account.

Frontier webmail service is provided by Frontier Communications to its customers to send, receive, and manage emails. It provides various features such as advanced security, spam filtering, and can be accessed with a web browser. Users can access the Frontier emails through a Frontier web portal.

Why do users want to migrate their Frontier Email to a Gmail Account?

Gmail is one of the popular cloud applications that is used worldwide and can be accessed anywhere & anytime with the help of the internet. Apart from emailing, Google provides other services, so users prefer to use them with a Gmail account. A few other reasons are explained below.

Large Storage Space: Gmail provides 15 GB of storage space, whereas Frontier provides 5 GB of storage space to its users. Storage space helps users to store photos, emails, documents, etc in the Google Drive.

Other Google Services: Google provides other services, like Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Contacts, Google Calendars, etc, apart from the emailing service. So users prefer to use a Gmail account rather than other services for managing emails.

Advanced Security features: Gmail has two-factor authentication and a spam filtering service that makes it exceptional among other webmail services.

Closure of Frontier email account: If the user wants to close their Frontier webmail account, then they can use the Gmail account and transfer their important emails from the Frontier account to the Gmail account. A Gmail account opens for free of cost.

How to migrate Frontier email to Gmail account manually?

For manually adding Frontier emails to a Gmail account, you have to follow these steps.

1. Open your Gmail account.
2. Click on the gear icon in the top right corner and click on See all settings.
3. Click on the Account and Import tab and then select the “Add a mail account” tab.
4. Enter the email address of the Frontier email account and press the Next button.
5. Select the option Import emails from my other account (POP3) and click the Next button.
6. Enter your Frontier email address, password, POP Server, and Port Number.
7. Check the box and click the Add Account button.
8. At last, click the Finish button, and Frontier emails start importing to the Gmail account.

When you follow this step, only the Inbox folder of the Frontier mailbox containing emails starts importing to the Gmail account.

If you want to import the entire Frontier mailbox folder to your Gmail account, then follow the method below.

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How to migrate Frontier email to Gmail account automatically? 

eSoftTools IMAP Backup & Migration software is the best tool to migrate the Frontier mailbox to a Gmail account. This tool has a graphical interface that is user-friendly and easy to use. It allows users to migrate their Frontier mailbox to cloud applications other than Gmail, such as Yahoo Mail, Office 365/Microsoft 365, Outlook.com, and other IMAP email accounts.

The tool is also available in a free demo version, in which 25 emails from each folder of the Frontier mailbox migrate to the Gmail account. Moreover, the tool preserves the folder hierarchy and email meta properties during the migration process.

Step-by-step procedure

• Download and install eSoftTools IMAP Backup & Migration software on your Windows system.
• Select the IMAP server option from the list of options.

• Enter the Frontier webmail account email address, password, and IMAP details into the software
  • Host: imap.frontier.com
  • Port: 993

• Preview the Frontier mailbox folders on the left side and select the folders that are to be migrated to Gmail.

• Click on the Import to cloud button and select the option Import to Gmail option.

• Enter the Gmail email address and Google Application password.
• Apply the email filter (optional) feature if you want to filter emails according to Date.

• At last, click on the Import to Gmail button and migration process will start.

Benefits and features of IMAP Backup & Migration software

• Backup IMAP email account emails like Frontier webmail into multiple email format files like PST, MSG, MBOX, HTML, MHTML, EML, EMLX, PDF and Thunderbird.

• Migrate IMAP emails to different cloud applications like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Office 365/Microsoft 365, Outlook.com and other IMAP email accounts.

• Maintains the folder hierarchy and email meta properties like To, cc, bcc, subject, Sender and recipient into during back up and migration process.

• Have an email filter feature that filters emails according to Date by specifying the Date Range( From and To).

• Save and Names emails with the naming convention feature that names emails based on Subject/Date/From.
  
• Preview the IMAP mailbox folders on the left side in the tree structure.

Conclusion 

Migrating Frontier Mailbox to Gmail can be done manually or by an automated method. The manual method is applied to a mailbox with a small size and migrates only the Inbox folder. Although an automated method can be applied to any size mailbox, it can migrate all the folders of the mailbox to a Gmail account.