Do you need to migrate your emails and labels from one Gmail account to another Gmail? Than you’ve come to the right place! This short guide explains how you can easily migrate from an existing Gmail to another Gmail account!
Advantages of this Tutorial:
✅ No tech knowledge required.
✅ No need to download your data / mess with multiple accounts in your email client.
✅ Fully-automated process so you don’t have to worry about anything!
✅ No service interruption, use your old account during the migration.
✅ Migrate huge Gmail mailboxes, this approach works for mailboxes of all sizes!
Steps to Migrate from Gmail to Gmail:
Summary (tl;dr):
To migrate your emails from Gmail to Gmail, follow these steps:
- Create an app password for both of your accounts.
- Connect your Gmail accounts using our email migration tool “MailJerry”
- Start your migration and – optionally – enable the auto-sync after the migration finished.
But first, let’s look into some reasons why you might wish to migrate from one Gmail account to another:
Reasons to
Migrate from Gmail to Gmail
In today’s digital world, it’s quite common to change email providers: Plans, pricing, storage capacity and features are constantly changing, giving many users a good reason to consider alternative email solutions and perform an email migration from time to time. But migrating from Gmail to Gmail? Performing a migration only to stay with the same email company? Does this make sense?
In fact, even if it seems illogical at first, there can be good reasons why you might want to migrate from your old Gmail account to another Gmail. Here are a few examples:
- Account Consolidation:
You’re owning multiple Gmail accounts and wish to consolidate your data in one single, more organised place. - Username preferences:
Remember the time when it was cool to have a “fancy” nick name like “coolkid_atlanta1981@gmail.com”? Well, in a more professional setting, this cool kid might not seem so cool anymore and therefore need to migrate to a new, more professional sounding Gmail address. - Name change:
Due to marriage, legal name change, or other personal reasons, your old email address might be outdated and needs to be changed. - Organisational changes:
Many new founder start their business using their private Gmail address. As soon as the business grows, it can get necessary to split your professional and private life into separate accounts. Or do you really want your employees to read auntie Beth’s yearly Christmas greetings including old pictures of you as a kid? (Yup, we all have these “loving” relatives… winking face ). - Spam and account clutter:
Once upon a time, there was a brand new, empty inbox. But after some months or years of usage, you’ve simply signed up with too many services, newsletters and successfully spread your email address across the world wide web. Now, all that’s left in your inbox is spam or even worse, meaning those super-annoying cold acquisition emails (Thank you, LinkedIn!). When your account has gone down the drain and even services like “Leave Me Alone” can’t help to declutter your inbox anymore, it might be time to switch to a new Gmail account.
➡️ So if you’re satisfied with what Gmail has to offer and simply want to move to a new / another account, it makes perfectly sense to migrate from Gmail to Gmail. Therefore, let’s find out how to do so!
Step 01:
Setup your Existing Gmail Account
Before you start your migration from your existing Gmail account to your new one, you need to set up your existing account and create an app password. But don’t worry, that’s easily done with a few clicks:
1. Log in to Gmail
Go to Gmail and sign in to your account.
2. Access Your Google Account Settings
Click on your account icon in the top right corner, then select “Manage your Google Account.“
3. Navigate to Security Settings
On the left side of the page, click “Security.“
4. Enable 2-Step Verification
Scroll down to the section labeled “How you sign in to Google” and ensure 2-Step Verification is turned on. In case it 2-Step-Verification is not enabled yet, click on the setting and follow the instructions to turn it on.
5. Open the App Password Settings
Once 2-Step Verification is active, click on it (or the arrow next to its status) to open the settings. Scroll down to “App passwords” and click on it.
Don’t see the “App passwords” option? No worries! You can access it directly through this link.
6. Create Your App Password
Create a new app password and enter any name that helps you remember why you created the password. Click on “Create” and Google will generate your app password and display it on the screen.
⚠️ Important: Copy the app password and keep it safe – you’ll need it in a few moments for your migration from Gmail to Gmail.
Step 02:
Create & Set Up your New Gmail Account
If you haven’t done so far, create your new Gmail account. As soon as your new account exists, create an app password for this Gmail address as well!
1. Create Your New Account
Open this link to create a new Gmail account. Don’t forget to consider these best practices when creating a new email address.
2. Create an App Password for your New Account.
Repeat step 01, but this time for your new account.
➡️ After the setup is complete, you should have two app passwords: One for your old and one for your new Gmail account.
Step 03:
Migrate from Gmail to Gmail
Now that you’ve completed the setup for both of your accounts, the fun part begins: Actually migrating your email data from Gmail to Gmail!
1. Download MailJerry – the Email Migration Tool
Download MailJerry for your device or start your email migration directly in your browser at https://webapp.mailjerry.com/.
What is MailJerry?
MailJerry is an easy-to-use email migration tool that migrates all your data from Gmail to Gmail. Thanks to its fully automated process, your emails, labels and folders are migrated to your new account with only a few clicks. The cloud-migration software migrates your data directly between the Google servers, so you don’t have to download / upload your email data.
Best of all: After the migration, MailJerry can keep your accounts synced, so you don’t have to worry about emails that are still sent to your old email address!
2. Start a New Migration
Open MailJerry and enter your email address. Now click on “New Migration“.
3. Add your Existing Gmail Address
In the section “Existing Address”, select Gmail as account type.
Enter your old email address in the field username and the app password for this account.
4. Add your New Gmail Address
Select Gmail as account type for your new address and enter your new email address as username and the app password for your new account.
ℹ️ If you wish to migrate huge data amounts, it might be reasonable to enable the option “Ignore Google Bandwidth Limits”. You can learn more about this option here.
5. Check your Settings & Review your Migration
Click on “Check Settings” and wait until both of your accounts were checked. After MailJerry connected both of your accounts, you’ll see a summary of your migration from Gmail to Gmail.
The software will show how many emails and labels (“folders”) are contained in your old account and check if your new account is ready to receive your data.
6. Start the Migration from Gmail to Gmail
Now click on “Start Your Migration”. Your Gmail to Gmail migration will start immediately and the software will move all your email data to your new account. Wait until the migration finished (of course, you can work with our old account during the migration) and you’re done!
➡️ See? It’s in fact really easy to migrate from Gmail to Gmail!
Bonus: Auto-Sync
Does your old Gmail account still receive emails that you wish to forward to your new account? In this case, click on “Overview” as soon as your migration finished. Select your migration, scroll down to “Options” and enable the auto-sync.
The auto-sync checks for new emails every three hours and automatically migrates them to your new Gmail account!
Thank you so much for providing such an amazing tool. I was looking into doing this with another software that would've taken me forever to learn and do but with MailJerry, my email migration was a lot easier!"
Migrate from Gmail to Gmail:
FAQ
Does MailJerry migrate the labels from my old to my new Gmail account?
Yes! MailJerry automatically creates all labels in your new account that are available in your old account and assigns them to the respective emails.
How can I migrate my contacts and calendars to my new Gmail account?
To migrate your contacts from Gmail to Gmail, follow this tutorial up until step 5. Instead of “Outlook CSV”, select “Google CSV” and import the CSV file into your new Gmail account.
For your existing calendars, export your Google calendars as described in this tutorial and import the exported data into your new Gmail account.
How long does it take to migrate X GB of data from Gmail to Gmail?
This depends on how much data you wish to migrate. After a certain amount of data volume was migarted, Google applies bandwidth limits to your accounts. This means that your migration runs slower after you hit these limits (current limits: 2500 MB download and 500 MB upload per day).
But don’t worry: Don’t stop the migration, but wait until your migration finished. It’s absolutely now problem for a migration to run longer than 24h or even a couple of days. Simply close MailJerry, work with your old account as usual and enable the auto sync as soon as your migration finished.
I’m in a hurry. Is there anything I can do to speed up the migration?
Yes. If you’re in a hurry, enable the option “Ignore Google Bandwidth Limits” when connecting your accounts. By activating this option, MailJerry will ignore Google’s limits and try to migrate your data as fast as possible.
Only downside: When doing so, it might happen that Google cuts the connection to your accounts after some time. If this is the case, MailJerry will show an error. But don’t worry, in case you were cut from your accounts, stop the current migration and start a new one. All data that was already migrated to your new Gmail account will be skipped, so you don’t loose any progress you made so far!
Can I work with my new or old Gmail account while the migration is still running?
Yes. During the migration, you can use your old Gmail account as usual (receive, write and send emails). After the migration finished, simply enable the auto-sync so that the changes made to your inbox during the migration are also reflected in your new account.
Can I change folders / labels while my migration is still running?
That’s actually not recommended. It’s no problem at all to write and send emails and add labels to emails that you received after starting the migration. However, restructuring your emails and labels during the migration can cause duplicates. Therefore, we’d recommend that you a) first clean your old mailbox and then migrate your emails or b) migrate your emails and sweep the broom after the migration finished.
