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Hi,

I have alot of e-mails that I want to export from one gmail account to another.  Is there a way to mass export them?

thanks

You can check e-mail in gmail via POP3.

I'm not sure this'll work but you could set up one of your accounts to have POP3:
Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded):

Then you can import the mail from that account:
Settings > Accounts > Add another mail account

but i don't want to export to outlook.  I want to export it to another gmail account though

When you say "e-mails" you're referring to the actual emails and not your contact list, right?

yes my actual e-mails

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Originally posted by YourNeibour
but i don't want to export to outlook.  I want to export it to another gmail account though

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saralk is suggesting that you let one Gmail account offer the e-mails via POP and let the other Gmail account download them. Doesn't involve Outlook.

Oh ok...so just export it as a pop3 account and then just import it?

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Originally posted by YourNeibour
Oh ok...so just export it as a pop3 account and then just import it?

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not realy.
Importing/Exporting involves creating a file or files (like exporting/importing the Plus! preferences). This isn't so with this method.


What you need to do is as saralk suggested:

1) set your "old" account to enable POP3 for all emails
Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > POP Download: enable POP for all mail
and
Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP > When messages are accessed with POP: delete GMail's copy (to remove the mails from your old account once they are retrieved)

2) set your "new" account to be able to retrieve other POP3 accounts (this can be any POP3, but for this purpose it is just another GMail account). So fill in the account data of your "old" account in one of the POP3 retrieval settings of your "new" account.
Settings > Accounts > Get mail from other accounts: add another mail account > fill in all the appropiate fields -correctly-

3) In your "new" account retrieve all email (thus including those other POP3 accounts). This will retrieve the emails from your "old" account and put them in your "new" account as if they are new emails.

4) Go back to your old account and set the forwarding to your new account in case you still want to recieve mail which is send to your old account.

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