How to Transfer TELUS Email to Gmail Explained Here

Are you someone who wants to transfer TELUS email to Gmail but doesn’t know how? Then this guide will help you get your query sorted for once and for all.

I made a switch pretty recently, so I am in the best possible position to guide users like yourself on how they can forward every email and complete the migration in a quick fashion.

There are multiple approaches to choose from, but not all of them are fast or secure. Regardless, I will teach you every method and leave the decision to you for selecting the most appropriate method. Let us begin by discussing the key points that make a user quit TELUS email and hop on Gmail instead.

Why Transfer TELUS to Gmail?

You get ample storage even in Gmail’s free tier same cannot be said for a TELUS account, which is notorious for its stringent storage quotas.

With Gmail, you get access to a complete personal business suite, while no such extra features are available in TELUS.

Also Read: How to Transfer Bell Email to Outlook

AI is yet another feature where TELUS is non-existent, whereas Gmail through Google’s latest Gemini models gives you access to one of the world’s best AI.

All these and many other parameters clearly show the inferiority of the TELUS email account when compared to Gmail.

Now that the reasons are clear, let me tell you about the most basic means of making the switch

Forward All TELUS Mails to Gmail Account

Perhaps the easiest one to figure out on your own. All you have to do is the following.

• Step 1. Log in to your TELUS ID and open any email that you want to see in your Gmail account
• Step 2. Click the Forward arrow icon.
• Step 3. In the New mail draft, add your Gmail account as your recipient.
• Step 4. Hit send.

This sounds simple enough and can be done in under a minute, but that’s where the problem begins. As you can see, we can only forward one email at a time.

So you have to repeat the 4-step process for each email individually, increasing the overall time taken to complete the transfer of TELUS to Gmail by quite a lot.

A second cause for concern is for those who operate in a highly regulated industry. In this method, every email is forwarded, which means its metadata is altered. So it can no longer be treated as the same mail in a legal context.

If time and metadata alteration are not enough, there is also a daily email forwarding quota you need to consider, which is somewhere around 500 per day and 100 per hour.

Therefore, you can clearly see that email forwarding, which earlier seemed to be a quick and easy way to complete the transfer, is, in actuality, quite a lackluster method.

Don’t worry, you can still use it if there are only a few emails in your personal account and all you care about is the email content, i.e, the metadata is of no concern to you.

Moreover, I have several other methods you can try out as well, so let’s see what they are.

Add TELUS and Gmail to the Email Client and Migrate

Yes, you heard that right, the desktop-based email client can be used as your very own email migration agent. Let me show you how.

• Step 1. Begin by setting up any email client of your choice. There are many free options like Thunderbird, Outlook, etc.
• Step 2. Add both your TELUS and Gmail accounts to the client. You need to make a Gmail app password for that, so check out my guide on how to make one.
• Step 3. Once both accounts are available, select a bunch of emails from the TELUS section, hold the emails (by pressing your cursor), move them to the Gmail account folder, and drop them.
• Step 4. Repeat the previous step however many times you need to achieve a full transfer from TELUS to Gmail.

However, this method too has some hidden limitations that you must be aware of before you use it.

First and foremost, the most obvious drawback is the slow speed of transfer. No matter how fast you move your cursor, there is a practical limit.

Not to mention the absence of any way to track how many emails have been moved and how many are left means you rely more on guesswork than actual metrics.

Moreover, if you operate multiple TELUS accounts, then setting up all of them simultaneously increases the chances of errors.

All in all, this process sounds good on paper but does not hold water in the real, practical sense. Not worry, next I will describe a built-in solution within Gmail itself.

Use Gmail to Pull all TELUS Mail

Here is what you need to do:

• Step 1. Open a browser tab and log in to Gmail.
• Step 2. Click the Settings gear > See all settings.
• Step 3. Switch to Accounts and Import.
• Step 4. Click on Import mail and contacts
• Step 5. Complete the on-screen instructions.

This method is precise, quick, and brings all emails, but it has no filtering capability. So if you only want to move emails from a specific time frame, then you cannot use this method.

Also, you have to set this for each account separately. If you are performing a multi-account setup, this is a time-consuming process.

Each of the methods I have described until now has some of the other defects. Does that mean you have to choose a problematic way to move emails is there no other way? No, in fact, it’s quite the opposite. I have saved the best for last. I did this so you could clearly understand the limitations of each manual method and know why you shouldn’t use them.

Let me now make you aware of the best method out there.

Professional TELUS to Gmail Transfer

Choose SysTools IMAP to IMAP migration solution and forget all your worries. The tool is designed to handle any inter-email transfer you throw at it.
Test out the demo right now, and once you are ready, get the full version for unrestricted TELUS to Gmail migration.

 

Here are 5 easy steps you have to perform to complete the entire migration.

Step 1. Install the tool on any machine; it works on both Windows and Mac. Just make sure you download the right version. On the setup screen, you do not need to change anything; just add a date filter, and you are good to go.

Step 2. Next up, there will be a list of IMAP servers. Choose Others from the list and verify the URL server name and port number.

Step 3. Replicate the same step, but this time Gmail will be present as a separate option, and you dont have to add any details, just validate directly.

Step 4. Then, map the users with the help of the free CSV template

Step 5. Finally, validate the user list and click “Start Migration,”. Your job is now done. Let the software handle the rest!

Conclusion

Now I have made you aware of all the possible paths for the TELUS to Gmail transfer. I hope you select the right method and make the migration process super easy.