Importing email from the old Birkbeck Webmail service to your new Gmail account

This assumes that you have tested your GMail account, and can send and receive email successfully.

Within GMail, click on settings, then accounts.

Click on Add a mail account you own

Enter the email address and then hit next.

Enter your ITS password, and change the POP server to imap.bbk.ac.uk

If the password and server names have been entered correctly, you will receive a "your email account has been added" confirmation.

Highlight the "no" checkbox (the first option is irrelevant) and click finish. Depending on your mailbox size, the import may take some time. Once completed, GMail will check the Webmail box periodically, so once you have migrated your old mail messages to Google, and informed us that mail delivery should be transferred to GMail, delete the mail account for the Webmail service.