Email transfer from Virgin to BT

[rforsdyke]

Hello.

I am currently a Virgin Media customer who will need to switch to BT in the next few months due to a house move.

Is there an easy way of transferring Virgin emails into a new BT email account (not yet set up)?

Many thanks.

[imjolly]

your virgin email address will cease after 90 days from when you leave Virgin media  so you need to start informing contacts when you have a new email address whether that is BT or probably better gmail or similar.  That way moving providers has no effect on your email

[rforsdyke]

Thanks for your reply.

However, the question really is how do I get emails currently residing in a Virgin account into a BT account? Is there a way of downloading them then uploading into BT?

Cheers,

[licquorice · Accepted solution]

Use a mail client such as Thunderbird, set up both accounts as IMAP and simply drag and drop  from one account to the other.

[rforsdyke]

Aaah! OK! Thanks!

[Andy_N]

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@rforsdykewrote:

Aaah! OK! Thanks!

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I would suggest you not get/use a BTinternet email account - use something non ISP based, such as Gmail instead. That way you won't have any issues moving ISPs in the future.