Recently, the Gmail Help Community has received quite a few queries on this topic involving AOL, Yahoo!, and Outlook accounts. As an attempt towards making the users more comfortable, this three-part blog aims to explore the various inbuilt Gmail processes through which one can bring over emails from another account over to a Gmail account. In this opening part, we look at how we can bring over emails from an AOL account. There will be follow-up blogs on how to bring over emails from Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts as well. In Gmail, these are the included methods of bringing over emails from another account: The POP3 fetch. Gmailify (using the IMAP protocol). Import (using the ShuttleCloud API). It is worth noting that the AOL account used for testing has 2-step verification enabled. If your AOL account isn't and you would like to do it, here is the help article on how to do it: https://help.aol.com/articles/2-step-verification-stronger-than-your-password-alone . If your Go
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