

Once the transfer is finished, head to your Spam folder, hit the “Select All” checkbox in the top-left corner, then “Select all conversations in Spam.” You can then drag them into your inbox or the folder where your old emails are stored. Some of your old emails might end up in Spam on the secondary account.

Emails transfer from oldest to newest, so you can fill up your secondary inbox with older emails until it runs out of space.Duplicating all your emails can take several days, but you don’t have to tend to your computer while this happens.Make sure “keep Gmail’s copy in the Inbox” is selected from the drop-down list in this section. Lifewire has a great step-by-step guide (with images) on how to accomplish this, but the short version is that you’ll head into Settings > Forwarding and POP/IMAP on your main Gmail account, then enable POP for all mail. Duplicate emails on the secondary account You can switch between the two accounts by clicking your profile icon from within Gmail or you can just use an incognito/private browser tab to manage your second account in a separate window.įrom now on, I’m going to refer to your actual email address as your “main account” and your new address as your “secondary account.” Keep that in mind as you’ll be switching back and forth a lot. In Gmail, click on your profile icon in the top-right corner, select “Add another account,” then “Create account” on the next page. If you’d like to join me in getting off the Gmail payment treadmill, here’s what you need to do: Set up a secondary Gmail account
