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Has anyone had a successful, pain free migration to Google Mail?
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...
If we restrict the scope to mail only, then yes, I had a seamless pain free migration from Telus mail to Gmail. I was using Thunderbird and POP3. Incoming mail was downloaded from the Telus server each time I logged in. I very rarely used the Telus Webmail, only when traveling. And if we put aside the risk of having your mail stored on a Google floating barge in a third world country, I am more happy with the Gmail system than the Telus system. I can now access my mail on my phone. I still use Thunderbird and am quite happy with that arrangement. I now use IMAP instead of POP3. That means the mail stays on the Google server (so I can access it from my phone or anywhere I have internet), but Thunderbird mirrors it and downloads a copy of the mail to my home PC where it is saved on my hard drive. Changes made in Thunderbird are immediately also made on the Google server, and vice versa. The only issue I am having is that I occasionally have to resign into Google and enter my password. Not sure what is causing that...
The Calendar is another matter. I was using Thunderbird Lightning. There is an add on for Thunderbird that is supposed to sync a Google Calendar to the Lightning calendar. That did not work and it seemed to be caused by the flavour of the gmail account that Telus created. The add on worked for direct gmail accounts, but not the Telus created account. I finally found a work around with another add on, that simply displays the Google Calendar as a tab in Thunderbird, and does not use Lightning. That seems to work fine.
I don't know what you are using for an e-mail on your computer, but one piece of advice I would give you is to go into the Telus Webmail and download all the mail on their server. If you have an email system that saves your email on your hard drive, then you will have all your old email regardless of what Telus does.
Hope that helps some,
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.
