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Thinking about migrating from Google Mail to iCloud (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am considering switching from google mail to iCloud and am curious about your opinions.

I know there will be a lot of accounts I would have to change my email in, but most of my important accounts already have email addresses from apples „hide my mail“ function, so I am willing to do that work. And for the rest an automatic email forwarding will do.

A few questions are already in my mind, maybe someone can answer them for me:

Will my 2TB iCloud be used for my emails? Or would I need an additional subscription?
Is it possible to migrate all my mails from gmail to iCloud without any third party tools?
And to everyone already using a iCloud email as primary mail account -> What are your experiences so far? Any problems?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Using iCloud mail since 2011, no issues. Yes, mail uses your iCloud storage. To migrate your emails, open the Mail app on Mac, select all from the Gmail archive and search for "move to other folder" from the menu. Move to iCloud archive. You can follow the same process for any other folder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What’s interesting is that Gmail acts the same way with google drive. I once had a woman who hadn’t received an email in over a year because she stuffed her gmail drive full of photos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pretty sure Gmail starts deleting old emails in this case?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you, that’s good to know! Do you know if there is a way to do that without a Mac? Is there like an option on the iCloud website to import mails from gmail?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know, I've never used iCloud from the web… But you can follow the same process from iPhone or iPad

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hmm okay. So just to make sure I understand what you did… you copied every folder from one account to another using a mail program where both accounts were configured?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly