Gmail question - Transferring emails from one Gmail account to another in bulk?

Question

I have like 200+ emails saved in an older Gmail account and i just made a new account with Gmail, I want to transfer all the emails from the older to the new account but from what I know, the only way to do this is with the forward button which does each email one by one.

Is there any way to do allot of emails at once?

Answer 1

Yep.

Grab Thunderbird - http://getthunderbird.com

Install it and follow Gmail's instructions on how to set up a pop account with them using Thunderbird - http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38343&topic=1555

Grab all of them onto your computer.

Create the other e-mail address and put it into Thunderbird's address book.

You can then mass forward them in Thunderbird to your new e-mail address... or you can find the folder in your computer, zip it and send it to your new address. I'd recommend converting the files from .mbox to .eml first, though.

http://home.arcor.de/luethje/prog/ - Find the "mbx2eml 0.60a" program there (second one down, and it has a blue background.) There are instructions included in the tiny software.

.eml files are basically just text files - zipped they'd be readable anywhere.

Zip each subfolder.