I would definitely use IMAP instead POP3. Set up a desktop client such as Mozilla Thunderbird or Outlook and drag-and-drop messages by the folder.
On Tuesday, 28 April 2015 19:59:16 UTC+2, Yoav Erez wrote: > > Last week I signed up one of my clients to Google Business (paid account), > but until that point she was using a regular free gmail account and has > about 8GB of emails in that account that we would like to be moved into the > Google Apps account. > > I looked it up online and it seems the best way to do this is by simply > enabling POP3 and telling the new business account to fetch the POP3 emails > from the old gmail account. > > When I did that Gmail wouldn't allow me to "leave emails on server after > download" but that's fine, as long as they were in the new mail box I > didn't need them in the old one. I enabled it and it started working, > seemed to be doing great for a couple of days but now it has stopped. > > I received a bunch of error messages about emails being the wrong size > (which doesn't make sense, how can they be the wrong size for one gmail > account but ok in another) and now the latest email in the new account is > from 2012. There are 3 years of emails that it just won't port over. > > Any idea on how to get those emails to come over? > > Oh - and another thing - it didn't seem to have deleted the emails from > the old account. So now I'm worried I'll get duplicates if I move them over > with another method. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Thank you! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
