Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

There are many among us who still prefer to access their emails through an email client. They mention obvious advantages such as one user interface for all email accounts, offline access, local storage etc.  So, in this blog, we shall look at the sequence of steps to add a Gmail address to an email client - Mozilla Thunderbird using IMAP. However, before starting the process, we shall check two very important details: under Gmail settings Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab, we need to check if IMAP is set as enabled in the IMAP access section. under the Google Accounts My Account page security tab, we need to check the status for 2-step verification for the account. Note: Having 2-step verification is not a requirement for this process. But, I am a huge advocate of having it enabled on the account for enhanced security. With these two details checked, we can now proceed to open Thunderbird and add this Google account there.  In the Thunderbird home screen, we locate the Email button under the

We routinely receive questions in the Gmail Help Community on how to bring over emails from other email service providers, and in some cases, the other provider may not support POP3 or is not supported by Gmailify or the ShuttleCloud API or may experience a known issue. For those circumstances, the most convenient method would be to use an email client like MS Outlook, Thunderbird, Mac or Apple Mail and follow the steps suggested below: Setup both the accounts as using IMAP. Allow the email client to download emails from both accounts. Set up the necessary folders in the destination account (in this case Gmail), which will show up as labels in the Gmail web UI. Move, Copy or Drag 'n Drop emails from the folders/inbox of the source account to the folders in the destination (Gmail) account. When your destination (Gmail) account in the email client syncs with the server, it would show the emails from the other account. Note:  This is a manual process so it needs to be performed perio