Supported editions for this feature: Business Starter, Business Standard, and Business Plus; Enterprise Standard and Enterprise Plus; Education Fundamentals, Education Standard, Teaching and Learning Upgrade, and Education Plus; Essentials Starter, Essentials, Enterprise Essentials, and Enterprise Essentials Plus; Nonprofits; G Suite Basic and G Suite Business. Compare your edition
Migrating from an IMAP account is currently in public beta and subject to the Pre-General Availability Offerings Terms in the Google Workspace Service-Specific Terms.
Use the new data migration service to migrate your users' email data to Google Workspace from another Google Workspace account or from an IMAP account. You set up the migration in the Google Admin console, and the migration process takes place in the cloud.
The new data migration service is a more recent version of the data migration service. You can use the service for migrations of up to 1,000 users for migrations from Google Workspace or 100 users from an IMAP server. Additional features are coming soon.
If you want to migrate other forms of data from different types of source accounts, go to Get started with the data migration service.
What's migrated?
For all types of migrations:
- Email messages, including draft and sent messages
- Attachments to email messages
- Read and unread status
For migrations from Google Workspace:
- Labels and sublabels
- Stars
For migrations from an IMAP server:
- Folders
- Subfolders
Get ready to migrate
Before you migrate data, complete the following in your new Google Workspace account:
- If you're using the Essentials edition, verify your domain before you begin. For details, go to Verify your domain to unlock features.
- If you're not using the Essentials edition, verify your domain before or after you run a migration.
- Give each user a user account before they can sign in and use Google services. The new data migration service migrates data only to accounts of existing users. It doesn't create user accounts from the data it migrates. For details about user accounts, go to Options for adding users.
- Turn on the Gmail service. For details, go to Turn a service on or off for Google Workspace users.
- Assign user licenses. Before your users start to use Google services in your new account, they need a user license for the account. For details, go to How licensing works.
If you're migrating from Google Workspace, you don't need to turn on IMAP in your source or target account. The new data migration service uses the Gmail API to migrate data.
