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Email transfer from Telus to google mail
I have stumbled on a number of web articles about telus mail moving to gmail. Link: https://www.telus.com/en/bc/support/article/telus-email-transition-general-information I have not received any no...
They are migrating the email accounts over in batches. They will email you prior to your account moving.
About all I can do is tell you what I have done. I had a POP3 account in Thunderbird linked to my Telus webmail. I never really used the Telus Webmail. Thunderbird with a POP3 link downloads all email from the Telus server each time you open up Thunderbird. When my migration date was set, I opened Thunderbird the night before to ensure I had all the mail downloaded from Telus. The next day after I was migrated I set up a new account in Thunderbird following the instructions from Telus at this link:
Setup email on PC with Monzilla Thunderbird
Now I have a old, dead, set of folders in Thunderbird from the time before migration, and a new account with folders that I am slowly adding which is linked using IMAP to the new Google account. There is a point in this that lets you set up the account to an existing gmail address, or to a new one with Telus G Suite. I chose the new G Suite account which retains my existing Telus email address.
For me, it basically worked for email. Contacts and Calendar have been a bit more problematic, but I have it pretty much sorted out.
