How to Import Emails From Windows Mail or Outlook Into Gmail

Do you know the process of importing emails into Gmail from another email service using Windows Mail or Outlook for Windows 10? This article will walk you through the process.

• Import Windows 10 Mail into Gmail
• Import Outlook for Windows 10 Mail into Gmail
• How Does This Function?

Import Windows 10 Mail into Gmail

To transfer messages between Windows Mail accounts, follow these steps:

1. Log into the email account from which you want to migrate your emails to Gmail.
2. Make a selection of the messages you wish to copy to Gmail.

While making your selection, hold down the Shift key to select multiple messages simultaneously. To select all emails in a folder, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A.

3. While holding down the Ctrl key, click and drag the highlighted messages to the left pane’s Gmail account to reveal a list of folders. Drop the messages into your preferred Gmail folder.

If you do not hold down Ctrl, the emails will be copied rather than moved to Gmail.

4. Another method of copying emails into Gmail is to right-click the highlighted message and choose Move, followed by a folder from your Gmail account.

If you’ve imported all of your messages into Gmail as unread, you can quickly mark them as read to avoid clogging up your Gmail account.

Import Outlook for Windows 10 Mail into Gmail

In Outlook, the process of transferring messages between accounts is identical, but the interface is slightly different:

1. Log into the email account from which you want to migrate your emails to Gmail.
2. Make a selection of the messages you wish to copy to Gmail.

While making your selection, hold down the Shift key to select multiple messages simultaneously. To select all emails in a folder, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + A.

3. While holding down the Ctrl key, click-and-drag the highlighted messages into a folder in the left pane under your Gmail account.

If you do not hold down Ctrl, the emails will be copied rather than moved to Gmail.

4. Another method for copying emails into Gmail is to right-click on the highlighted message and choose Move > Copy to Folder, then select a folder from your Gmail account.

How Does This Function?

To migrate emails from other accounts to Gmail, you must first configure both accounts in your preferred email client (e.g., Windows Mail or Outlook). When configuring that account, be sure to use the Gmail IMAP settings. Additionally, you may want to create a new folder in Gmail for your imported messages.

As long as your Gmail account is configured to communicate with the Gmail IMAP server, any changes you make to Gmail on your computer will be reflected online. As a result, any emails copied to Gmail from other accounts will be uploaded to your Gmail online account. When you access your Gmail messages via the Gmail mobile app or website in the future, you’ll see the same messages that were previously stored exclusively in Outlook or Windows Mail.

Though not as seamless, another option is to use Thunderbird. To accomplish this, you must first import your messages from Outlook or Windows Mail into Thunderbird and then copy them into Gmail from Thunderbird.

Apart from manually copying all new messages into Gmail as they arrive, you can also configure your email client to automatically forward messages to Gmail or configure Gmail to check for mail from your other account (s).