How to Migrate Emails from AOL Mail to Gmail?
Want to transfer AOL mail to Gmail? If yes, then you came at the right page. At the end of this article you will able to migrate AOL Mail to Gmail without any effort. This article is even for newbies. Anyone with a basic knowledge of computer can be able to import AOL Mail emails into Gmail account within a short frame of time. Before starting the discussion let’s take a quick look at AOL mail and Gmail.
AOL Mail is a free web-based email service provided by AOL. In 1993, both America Online (AOL) and Delphi started connecting their proprietary e-mail services to the Internet. By 1997, AOL Mail was the world’s largest e-mail provider, with around 9 million subscribers.
Gmail is a free email service developed by Google. Users can access Gmail on the web and using third-party programs that synchronize email content through POP or IMAP protocols. On April 1, 2004, Gmail was launched with one gigabyte (GB) of storage space, a significantly higher amount than competitors offered at the time.
There are two methods to migrate emails from AOL to Gmail. First method is a manual method and the other one is using third party software. You can choose the method that suits best for you. So lets get started.
Manual Method.
Transfer AOL Mail to Gmail manually
Login into your Gmail account and click on a gear icon on top right corner.
Click on setting menu.
Click “Import mail and contacts”. If you had already done this, then click “Import from another address”.
Enter your AOL email address under “what account you want to import from?”
Enter your AOL mail password under “Enter the Password” and click “Continue”.
Make sure Import contacts and Import emails are selected.
Any messages received in AOL account for a month are automatically copied to Gmail account. Check “Import new mail for next 30 days”.
Optionally, Select “Add label to all Imported mails”
Click “Start Import”
Click “OK”.
This is how you can manually export AOL Mail to Gmail account.
Limitations: The above method of AOL Mail to Gmail migration is quite lengthy. On the other hand the configuration is complicated as well as time consuming. It never import the complete Mailbox data from AOL mail to Gmail.
Professional Method:
Advik AOL Backup Tool is professional application which helps users to export/migrate AOL emails to Gmail account directly. This email migration wizard has a very simple graphical user interface. Hence you need not to be professional technical person for AOL to Gmail migration.
Benefits of using Advik AOL Backup Tool:
Cloud Migration: Apart from AOL to Gmail migration you can also use this tool to migrate emails from AOL mail to G Suite, Office 365, Windows Live mail, Yahoo Mail, Rediffmail etc.
Export AOL Mailbox: You can also download AOL mails to PST, MSG, EML, EMLX, PDF, MBOX, HTML, MHT, and XPS etc. file formats.
Complete Mailbox Migration: This Software migrate the complete Mailbox data. It includes Inbox, Sent Mails, Outbox, Drafts, Spams, Trash and any other folder created by user.
Selective Migration: You can select single as well as multiple Mailbox folders which you want to migrate from AOL to Gmail account. Apart from this you can use advance filter option to migrate selected email messages. Read also about aol mail backup tool
Preserve Key Elements: During the process of migration the tool retains all the key elements of emails such as Cc, Bcc, to, from, date & time stamp, header information, hyperlink, Unicode text etc.
Support all versions of Windows OS: You can use this Software on almost all the versions of Windows like Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista and XP. You can also run this software on both 32-bits as well as 64-bits machines.
Free Demo Download: You can download AOL Mail to Gmail Migration tool for free to check the efficiency and the working of this software. Hit the button below to download for free.
