How to import mail and contacts from another email account into Gmail Print

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Quick answer

Treat mail migration and contact import as separate tasks. Gmail's third-party account features are changing, so an old POP-import video may no longer match your account.

Applies to

For the owner or authorized user of the Google Account. Google-hosted mail, contacts and chat are separate from an Interactive Online cPanel mailbox. The preserved tutorial shows an earlier interface.

Steps

  1. Confirm the Google Account, intended task and scope. Preserve an export before a bulk import, deletion or migration.
  2. Preserve the source mailbox and contacts, review Google's current supported migration options and test a small scope first. Use Google Contacts for a supported contact-file import rather than assuming all mail settings also transfer.
  3. Reopen the affected list, message or setting and confirm the actual result. For a sent message, inspect Sent and check receipt with a controlled recipient.

Check the result

Confirm the intended message, record or setting changed in the correct account. For imports/exports, inspect representative contents rather than relying only on a completion notice.

Troubleshooting and support

If the control is missing, check the current Google product, account permissions and organization policy. Interactive Online cannot recover a Google password or enable a feature that Google has removed.

Contact support from the owning account with the domain, product/version, exact error, time/time zone and redacted evidence. Exclude credentials, session URLs, payment details and private customer records. Confirm any separate application-support scope.

Related help

Official references

Written guidance reviewed November 1, 2026. The preserved historical tutorial has not been recertified for current software.


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