Migrate Emails to a New Email Address

Migrate Emails to a New Email Address

1. Go to your outlook
2. Click File, open & export, import/export
3. Click Export to a file
4. Click Next
5. Click Outlook Data File .pst
6. Click next
7. Click on the existing email address to export from all folders
8. Click next
9. Click browse, and save the document to your desktop, name it BACKUP
10. Click ‘allow duplicate items to be created’
11. Click Finish.
12. Check your export backup shows on your desktop
13. Go back to outlook
14. Click file, info, add account
15. Fill in your name, email address and new password
16. Wait for the creation to happen
17. You may be asked to input your password again, do this and select ‘remember my credentials’
18. Once the account has been created, select finish.
19. Go to file, open & export, import/export
20. Click Import from another program or file
21. Click next
22. Click Outlook Data File .pst
23. Click browse, and find the backup file you saved in step 9, click ok
24. Click Allow Duplicates to be created
25. Click next
26. Allow the import to happen
27. Click finish.
28. Check all your emails from your old account are in your new one.
29. You may have to manually import your sent and trash folders. To do this, click on the folder in your old account, and select CTRL+A. Drag and drop the emails into the corresponding folder on your new account.
30. Check your calendar is synced.
31. Confirm this process has all happened thoroughly.
32. Once you are confident, go to file, info, account settings, account settings
33. Select your new account as default
34. Click on your old account and click remove
35. Click close.