{"id":996,"date":"2022-01-07T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T11:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/01\/07\/5866294-how-to-migrate-emails-from-gmail-to-hostinger-email\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:09","slug":"5866294-how-to-migrate-emails-from-gmail-to-hostinger-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5866294-how-to-migrate-emails-from-gmail-to-hostinger-email\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Migrate Emails From Gmail to Hostinger Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

To migrate emails from Gmail to Hostinger Email, follow the steps below 👇<\/p>

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Step 1 – Prerequisites<\/h2>

To properly migrate email accounts from Gmail, take care of the following points:<\/p>

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  1. \n

    Make sure IMAP is turned on<\/a> in your Google Admin console account – applicable for Google Workspace email accounts only<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  2. \n

    Make sure the 2FA authentication is enabled<\/a> <\/b>for your Google account, as it’s a must for app passwords to work<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

  3. \n

    Generate an app password<\/a> <\/b>for the account; it would look something like this:<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>

    \"Generating<\/div>

    \n<\/p>

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    Make sure to save the app password<\/b> – it’s only shown once<\/b>! If you missed it, delete it and generate a new one 💡<\/p>\n<\/div>

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    Step 2 – Gather Details<\/h2>

    To successfully migrate your accounts to us, gather these details from Gmail:<\/p>

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    1. \n

      Source email account <\/b>– your email account address<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    2. \n

      Source email password <\/b>– the generated app password<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

    3. \n

      Mail Server <\/b>(IMAP<\/b>) <\/b>name – for Gmail, it’s imap.gmail.com<\/b> <\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>

      \n<\/p>

      Step 3 – Initiate Migration<\/h2>

      Finally, once the above steps are taken care of, access the Email Import<\/a><\/b> tool and initiate the migration<\/b> 😊<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Migrating email accounts from Gmail to Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-email-migration-and-backup"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5866294-how-to-migrate-emails-from-gmail-to-hostinger-email\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5866294-como-migrar-los-emails-de-gmail-a-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5866294-comment-migrer-les-emails-de-gmail-vers-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5866294-bagaimana-cara-migrasi-email-gmail-ke-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5866294-como-migrar-os-e-mails-do-gmail-para-a-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5866294-----gmail--hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4044,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/4044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}