Once they are in the trash, select all the ones you want to move and drag them to the All Mail folder in the receiving account –. Once you drag them to the trash, they will no longer show up in All Mail, but they are not deleted, they are just in the trash (they have been labeled with the tag “trash”). Select the emails you want to move in and, I know this is a little scary but, drag them to the trash in Thunderbird.
And you really want your trash empty for what we are about to do. I’ve fiddled around with lots of different ways to make the transfer work, and the only one that seems to reliably work is weird.įirst, open the Gmail account you are transferring files from in a browser (not in Thunderbird) and empty your trash.ĭon’t try to empty your trash in Thunderbird as it doesn’t do anything. Once Thunderbird has downloaded all the emails, you can begin transferring the emails between accounts. To get this process started, click on “All Mail” in each of the accounts you are using and Thunderbird will start downloading the relevant data it needs to manage the emails.ĭepending on how many emails you have, this may take a while. Once you’ve got your accounts set up in Thunderbird, you need to let Thunderbird download the emails in the various accounts before you can start transferring. If you need to set it up later, you click on File -> New -> Existing Mail Account:įill in your information and Thunderbird will take care of the rest. You can fill in your username and password at that time or do it later. When you first open Thunderbird, it will ask you to set up an account. Thunderbird now makes this very straightforward. Next, you need to set up at least two Gmail accounts in Thunderbird (I’m assuming you have it installed, if not, install it). To begin with, you need to enable IMAP support in your Gmail accounts.
I prefer using Thunderbird for transferring emails between Gmail accounts, so I’m going to show how to do this using Thunderbird. Unfortunately, the process isn’t all that straightforward and can be quite confusing at times. The only way to transfer just some email between Gmail accounts is to use a desktop email client, like Thunderbird, Evolution, or KMail. Occasionally I have the need to transfer emails between the accounts. I have several Gmail accounts for various reasons.
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