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Gmail Migration
Most people discussing the migration of Telus email to Google Mail are coming with questions and/or complaints. This is unnerving as I contemplate initiating the migration. It would be helpful to k...
This “migration” is a class one Cluster F..k.
I use the Mail app on my Mac. Thursday 3 Sep, it took me over an hour on telephone with a techie in Asia to get my mail up and running. In the process, I had to delete my Telus account and reinstall with the Google server. That resulted in the loss of virtually all my email: received, sent and drafts.
Today, 4 Sep, I found that all my Calendar entries of several years have disappeared.
I am tempted to switch to Shaw or Rogers.
Beware!
We are in an area that only has Shaw or Telus and they both have crappy customer service. Telus was supposed to move my mailboxes over a week ago and they have not nor have they had the decency of a follow up call or email. My wife still has the old email and she won't be switching to fckg Google unless they force her.
I have survived the migration and it went really well - I was surprised. In this household there are two iphones, two ipads, one android phone, a macbookpro, mac mini and two windows PC.
All the apple products went really fast without and issues setup was very easy and the information Telus provided was easy to follow.
The PC's were more of a challenge - both run Outlook 365 and I thought I would use my skills by manually setting them up - no go.
I ended up using the GSuite sync tool which worked really well - all the mail and all the folders we have were imported as expected to both machines.
The hiccough were contacts but that was not a Telus/Gmail issues as I have mine in icloud and my wife's are in outlook.com. However it was easy to import once the conversion was done. All in all I was surprised how easy this was and how relatively quickly it went!
- Curious if we're now able to keep our telus.net Email address after the migration no charge if switching Internet providers 🤔
Oldislander You will be changed to gmail sometime end oct like it or not. Thats the email i got telling me my change date. Polecat
Is the end of October now the cut-off date? I was told originally it was the end of September. We still haven't heard anything from Telus and I'm getting a bit worried. Is there any way to contact someone to find out if we are going to receive a notice or if we have somehow been lost in the process? Thank you.
