Before starting, make sure you have an account with Gmail
Exporting and Importing Exchange Email to GMail
The next step is to migrate your email out of our Exchange email client (Outllook) to gmail.
- In Outlook go to file, export, and follow the steps to export a pst file from Outlook.
- Next, login to Gmail and go to settings to enable enable imap from google.
You have to enable imap in google mail for this to work.
- Add Gmail as a source to your Outlook client by adding an account to access GMail with imap.
- Once added, you'll have a new inbox populated with your new Gmail account in Outlook.
- In Outlook, select file -> import. Select the exported pst file to the google imap account to now import back into Outlook, but under the GMail imap account. I had over one gb of email. It took nearly an entire day for the import to complete.
Importing and Exporting Contacts to Gmail
- Select your Contacts tab in Outlook connected to your Exchange account.
- Select file ->export to create a CSV file of your contacts.
- Login to GMail. Click the contacts link. Then the import button. The contacts should import very quickly