[LUGSB] Change GMail account name

[Arjun Menon]

I'll try doing that.

Thanks for the help!

- Arjun

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:05 PM, James Crasta <jcrasta at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:00 AM, Arjun Menon <agnistus at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear LUGSB,
>>
>> Is there any way to change my GMail account name?
>> Example: from james at gmail.com to john at gmail.com
>>
>> If not possible, is there a way to transfer all my mail, google docs,
>> e.t.c. to a newly created gmail account.
>
> This is a strange question for this list.  Either way, the former
> would be up to Google, and I suspect their answer will be "no."  But
> the latter is possible.
>
> First, you would need to sign up for and activate your secondary gmail
> account.   Second, set up -both- accounts as separate IMAP accounts
> (see gmail's help pages) in a mail reader such as Mozilla Thunderbird.
>  Third, drag all your mail from one account to the other.   This will
> copy everything over to your old accounts.  You won't be able to move
> tags in the same way, however.   Depending on how much mail you have,
> this might take many many hours to do, and might get interrupted
> several times due to server timeouts, but I do know someone who has
> successfully done it.
>
> You might want to try moving only a few mails at first, and then
> moving the whole thing once you're satisfied with the process.
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