How to Migrate IONOS Email to Gmail Quickly & Easily

Anyone who doesn’t know how to migrate IONOS emails to Gmail finds themselves stuck with a subpar email service. Don’t worry, I am here to teach you everything that needs to be done and what should be avoided.

Having a suitable email service is of the utmost importance, especially if you use your email in a professional capacity. Gmail is just that. Self-hosted domains that you use with IONOS have their uses, no doubt about it, but the sheer amount of features that are in Gmail make it a better choice for a majority of users out there.

So, if you are an individual user looking to adopt Gmail for your day-to-day tasks or an admin who is interested in the latest AI capabilities of Gmail, first become aware of all the advantages you get, and then I will show you the steps to switch.

What Makes People Eager to Migrate IONOS Email to Gmail?

IONOS does not offer enough space to keep all emails. The entry-level plan only allocates a 2 GB mailbox. Which is way less for modern email standards. If you wish to store more email in your account, be prepared to pay more.

Also Read: How to Transfer CenturyLink Email to Gmail

Gmail offers upto 15 GB of data at zero cost.

Searching Emails is more swift and precise in Gmail. IONOS simply can’t compete in this regard.

Gmail gives you the full access to the Google Suite of tools. IONOS is just limited to a email service.

Gmail gets full access to the latest AI developments that Google makes. IONOS email has made no significant AI innovations to make user email more effective.

All these reasons are more than enough to change from IONOS to Gmail.

Gmail’s Internal Import Feature

To use this and migrate IONOS email to Gmail do the following:

• Step 1. On any browser login to https://accounts.google.com/ and choose Gmail app
• Step 2. Inside the Gmail app click on Settings cog.
• Step 3. Click on the See all settings button.
• Step 4. Go to the Accounts and Import tab.
• Step 5. Click on Import mail and contacts app.

Step 6. A new browser window will appear. Follow the instructions as they appear. Once you finish the process you will see that the IONOS emails starts to arrive in Gmail.

Use Email Clients to Conduct the Transfer IONOS emails to Gmail

Another way to move emails is by using the desktop based email clients.

• Step 1. Install Outlook, Thunderbird or any other email client on your system.
• Step 2. First setup the IONOS account in the client. Then open a new instance of the client and Setup Gmail there.
• Step 3. Open both of the Email client instances together side by side.
• Step 4. Select a group of emails from the client instance where IONOS is open and drop them into the Gmail side of the screen. Keep on doing this till you successfully move all mails.

Forward Emails from IONOS to Gmail

Forwarding is the easiest out of the three methods.

• Step 1. Open an IONOS mail.
• Step 2. Click forward mail.
• Step 3. Fill in the email draft and hit send.

Repeat as many times as you want. Accompany this with a Auto Forwarding rule so you don’t have to re-do the entire process every time a new email arrives in your mailbox.

What Do Professionals Use to Move IONOS Emails to Gmail?

SysTools IMAP Migration Software is the best available option on the market. It’s both affordable and user-friendly. You can move any number of emails using this platform.

 

The tool is capable enough to perform direct server-to-server migration, and because one of the platforms is Gmail, you can use the tool with an app password, keeping your actual credentials secure.

The features that make this tool stand apart from the rest are:

• Dedicated Date Filter
• Post Migration Options
• Real Time Reporting

So now let’s see how this tool works.

How to Migrate IONOS Email to Gmail Step by Step?

Step 1. Make the tool ready on your system( Install, Launch, and Activate), then look at the endpoint selection part; it’s already set to IMAP, and so is the Email workload section. That’s why all you need to do is apply the date filter, and that too is optional. Press Next to move to the next screen.

Step 2. On the Source Screen, toggle the IMAP Server bar. A list of options appears. Use the scroll wheel to get to the last option of the list and select it. That would be Others. After that, fill in the IONOS IMAP URL “imap.ionos.com” and the port number 993. Press Validate to let the tool confirm the details and press Next.

Step 3. Similarly, for the destination IMAP, repeat the process with a slight change. This time, in the IMAP list, select Gmail. You would not need to enter the URL and port number; this time, the tool does it for you. Simply press Validate and hit Next.

Step 4. From the User mapping screen, collect the CSV, fill it with the correct source and destination details, and upload it again.

Step 5. Now, view the user list, select all those that you have to migrate. Prioritize the most important accounts from the selected list. Press the Validate button and Start.

Conclusion

This guide discussed how to migrate IONOS email to Gmail in three different manual methods. However, none of those methods is error-free. To get a true error-free email switching, choose the professional tool described in this text. It will make the entire process super fast and free of issues like missing data.