Without a doubt, a gap throughout our lives, we may use more than one Gmail email account. In my case, I use an email account created 10 years ago. I didn’t think back then that my email address is too hard to remember. That is why I have now thought about changing the Gmail email address.
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It is at this point that I started asking myself questions like:
- If I migrate one Gmail account to another, will I lose the emails received in the old email account?
- If I join two accounts, which email address will appear as the sender?
- Will I receive emails from the old email in the new email inbox?
Well, all these questions and many more are what we will answer in this tutorial. Actually what the indications shown in this Post basically what we show is how to be able to change the Gmail email address without losing the emails of the old address as well as being able to continue answering these emails and all this from the new address of Gmail.
Before starting the tutorial, we will detail the practical case that we will use as an example:
- We have 2 Gmail accounts (It also works if one of them is NOT Gmail).
- Both accounts can have emails already received in the inbox.
- What we want is for all emails from email account 2 to be migrated to a Gmail 1 email account. This means that in Gmail 1 email we will have access to all old emails from Gmail 2 account, as well as all new emails this Gmail account receives from now on.
- When we reply to emails from email account 1 we can make the email address shown as sender account 2 if we want to. That is, the user who receives the email will be able to see that the email has been sent or replied to from the Gmail 2 account even if they send it from the Gmail 1 account.
That said, then we get to work to get to use a Gmail account from a new one without losing your old emails and being able to continue replying to emails as if following using the old account:
How to receive emails from an email account in your Gmail account.
– Obviously the first of all will be to have two email accounts. The requirement will be that the account we want to use must be Gmail. The account that we want to migrate may also be from Gmail or, on the contrary, from any other provider.
– Once we have the email accounts, we must log in to the one we want to stop using, which in our case we will call email account 2.
– Once inside email account 2 we will have to access the configuration and line followed by going to the section: Forwarding and Pop / IMAP Mail
– Here you will have to click on the section button Forwarding with name: Add a forwarding address.
– This will show a small window where you will have to click the button Continue to proceed with setup.
– Now a small box will be shown in which you will be informed that an email has been sent to the Gmail account 1 to confirm the receipt of emails from the email account. Click OK.
– At this point you will have to go to the Gmail account 1 open the mail received by the Gmail team and click on the link attached to that message.
– When you have confirmed the redirection in Gmail 1, we must go back to the configuration of email account 2 to save the changes made.
– After saving the configuration, in the Forwarding section of the email account 2 you must activate the forwarding function by checking the option: Send a copy of received emails to “Gmail 1 email address”
– Save Changes so that from this moment, when we receive an email in our email account 2, it will be sent to our Gmail account 1.
How to reply to emails from email account 2 from Gmail account 1.
However, this is not all, since we want that when we answer emails from email account 2 from Gmail account 1, we can do it using email address 2. For this we will have to go to Gmail account 1 and go to its Configuration.
– From here you will have to select the section: Accounts and Import.
– Locate the sub-category: “Send As: (Use Gmail to send messages from other email addresses.)”
– Click on the option: Add another email address, and add the email address 2.
– Now a window will open in which you will have to enter the email address that you would like to use as sender. In this case, we must enter the email address of account 2 since we want to respond from Gmail account 1 but the sender is email 2.
Note: in this window you must make sure that the box “Treat as Alias” is checked.
– After adding the address, you will have to send a verification that must be done from the email account 2.
– Go to email account 2. Here you will have received an email with a link that you will have to click to confirm the use of your email address 2 from the Gmail account 1.
Note: This confirmation must also be done from the Gmail 1 account. That is, you will have to open the verification email received in the Gmail 1 account and confirm the new settings.
– Again from the Gmail account 1 you will have to access: Settings> Accounts and Import > Send as
– From this sub-section you will now see the possibility of marking two options. In our case, we must check the option box: You reply from the same email address from which the message was received.
– Do not forget to save the changes for from this moment, when we respond to an email that was originally sent in email account 2 but that we receive and reply from Gmail account 1.
How to migrate all old emails from email account 2 inbox to Gmail account 1.
– Access your Gmail 1 account and go to: Settings> Accounts and import
– Here you will have to go to the sub-section: Import mail. This is where you should click the button: Import mail.
– This will open a window in which you will have to enter the address of your email account 2.
– After confirming it, the import of the emails already received in your account 2 will be available from the Gmail account 1.
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