Changing your gmail username or email address - a knol by Joshua Slive - 0 views
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choose the Accounts and Import tab. Gmail doesn't let you use its standard import feature to transfer from one account to another, so you'll need to use the Check mail using POP3 entry.
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If you absolutely need the old label structure, the only solution is to use an IMAP client to connect to both the old and new account and copy over folders/labels. But this solution can be tricky, because you can only copy over a certain (unspecified) amount of mail at a time.
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There is a Gmail specific backup/restore utility that works very well for this sort of operation: http://code.google.com/p/got-your-back/
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other content in your Google account that you want to transfer (calendars, documents, photos, etc), you'll have to do this separately. The Data Liberation Front website has detailed information on how to export and import data from pretty-much every Google product.
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keep the old account around so that you can keep receiving mail to the old address. You can consider activating the vacation responder to alert people who send to the old address that your address has changed.