John,
This shouldn't be so hard; just copy your archived emails to your new gmail account. What? You say you don't regularly back up your emails to a local archive? Oops! Now's a good time to start... I use Mailstore because it works just fine and it's free:
MailStore Home – Free Email Archiving and Backup for Home Users
To migrate to gmail, simply export your archived messages to your new account - easy peasy. And as an added bonus, you'll have peace of mind knowing your emails are safe even if the cloud fails you.
Wilson
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 1:29 PM, bigfish@pacbell.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
When I checked my bill several months back I am paying way too much. Something in the neighborhood of 45 bucks a month for this crappy service. I will switch to a Time Warner Cable modem when I come up for air. Part of my issue, and I posted about this months ago, is I have so much email data stored in folders on my ATT email account I can't find out if I drop ATT will my account be terminated. It is a Yahoo account but it goes through ATT and my domain is an old pacbell.net. I did a lot of googling months back and the best I found was that I could migrate the folders to a gmail account which I tried but it only took a few of the folders over. The process says it may take days but even after a week it only had a few of the folders transfered over.
They seem to make finding out specifics of keeping your email account after changing ISPs very difficult. I would have thought it would be a common occurrence and a quick google would show me the way but that was not the case. I'm not ruling out that I am google challanged but I even contacted Time Warner and they said they could migrate my account info, including folders, into a new account with them but when I tried to be specific about the folder transfers I was told oh yeah they can do that but I was talking to the sales department and I didn't have much confidence in their assurances that it would work.
Posted by: wilsonchao@gmail.com
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