How to move from Virgin email / NTL email to gmail

[vcustomer77]

Hi

I have one NTL and two Virgin email addresses. I use them all.

I also have three Gmail addresses which I hardly use.

How do I move across from my NTL and Virgin email addresses 'into' my Gmail ones? Ie, can I transfer my received and future emails to Gmail. Will I need to update my email addresses or will emails sent to my Virgin / NTL addresses automatically move across?

I'm not especially technological so fairly basic, step by step guidance would be great if possible please.

many TIA.

[Adduxi · Accepted solution]

Yes, you use email forwarding.  Just setup a rule to forward all your email in each "VM" mailbox, to forward into your Gmail inbox. 

However, I would seriously consider changing all your VM emails to the Gmail accounts.  I did this sone time ago as personally I think an email service from VM is not going to be around much longer.  Even new accounts can't have a VM email anymore, you now have to use a 3rd party email address.  It's a real pain to migrate, but really worth it in the end.  So no matter which ISP you choose, your email will not be affected.

[vcustomer77]

Thanks. What are the steps that I will need to take to change my VM emails to my Gmail ones? TIA

[Adduxi]

In a nutshell, you need to go through your VM emails and decide which ones are important enough to you.  Then, for example, if you have a VM email for your Bank, change it to a Gmail one.  Do this for each and every important email.  I did this some time back, and yes it is a long process, but I was also able to weed out a lot of rubbish as well.

[clivesmith6]

I am in a similar situation I have one orphaned account and I would expect to manually contact suppliers and the banks for future communications. But I presume there is a way of transferring the content of the existing account which does not involve manually accessing all messages and downloading attachments manually. 

[jpeg1]

There is an app that will do this, mentioned occasionally on here. A few minutes on Google should find it, or if you are lucky someone may pop up with a link.