How to Transfer Rediffmail to Gmail – A Technical Viewpoint

Published By Nilesh Kumar

Approved By Aswin Vijayan

Published On January 30th, 2024

Reading Time 4 Minutes Reading

Do you want to switch from Rediff to Gmail or You have a Google account but want to transfer Rediffmail to Gmail? Not an issue. This article will provide you a complete guide on how to transfer all mail from Rediffmail to Gmail and a perfect technique to take Rediffmail mail backup.

As Gmail is the top leading email server in worldwide and becomes common for every user to have a Google account. Google always update itself and introduced new features, that is what user like the most and they are searching the solution to migrate from Rediff to Google mail and also wants to backup of Rediffmail. Therefore, before moving towards the solution lets take an overview of reason and requirements for adding Rediffmail account to Gmail.

Forward Rediffmail to Gmail Account – Reason & Requirements

• • Rediff Mail

Rediffmail is an email provider in India which enables its clients to create free email accounts. It provides 10MB on mail attachment. The email service supports POP3 and SMTP servers to access Rediff mailbox.
Rediff email Incoming Mail Server (POP3) – pop.rediffmail.com (port 110)
Rediff email Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) – smtp.rediffmail.com (port 25)

• • Google Mail

Google service offers email client access for receiving and sending emails through Gmail account. It supports 20MB on file attachment and for security reasons, Gmail uses POP3 over an SSL connection, to make sure that email client supports encrypted SSL connections.
Google Incoming Mail Server (POP3) – pop.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 995)
Outgoing Mail Server – The SMTP mail server address provided by local ISP or smtp.gmail.com (SSL enabled, port 465 or 587)

Gmail is most trustworthy, secure and top leading email server. Whether it is a business environment or individual user, everyone prefer Gmail. The main feature of Gmail is it supports IMAP configuration and the benefit is user can easily save the data on server basis of each folder i.e., inbox, sent items, drafts etc. Therefore, many users start switching from Rediffmail.

Transfer Rediffmail to Gmail & Take Rediffmail Mail Backup

There is no direct solution to take backup of Rediffmail. To Migrate from Rediffmail to Gmail follow the below-mentioned step:

Step1: To Switch from Rediff to Gmail

• • 1. Login to Google mail with the correct credential
    2. Click on Gear icon and go to Settings
    3. Now, click on Accounts and Import option and Import mail and contacts
    4. A new window will appear with the message “What account do you want to import from?”
    5. Provide the email id of Rediffmail in the text bar i.e., name@rediffmail.com and click on Continue
    6. Enter the password of your Rediffmail account and click on Continue then, Start import
    7. Now, click on OK and check the list of labels in left side
    8. After the completion of migration process, you will see a new folder by the name of your Rediffmail id
    9. Click on that folder you will get emails of Rediffmail

Note: As discussed above Rediffmail does not configure with IMAP therefore, it only imports the emails of inbox. One can transfer emails from sent items, drafts, and other folder also by following these steps:

1. Sign into Rediffmail and go to Sent
2. Select the emails which need to be migrated
3. Click on Move mail and Inbox
4. Assign your inbox name as a sent item
5. Now, follow the above-mentioned steps again to transfer sent items of Rediff account to Google account.

Step2: Take Rediffmail Mail Backup

A question may be hit on your head that after transferring the data Rediff to Gmail, why to take a backup? A user may get all Rediff data on Gmail but this service is available only for 30days. After 30days a user needs to import the data again. Google mail also a cloud-based email server and to save data on cloud-based is quite risky. Therefore, taking a backup is a smart choice, but it is not an easy game at all. Therefore, one can opt Gmail Backup tool to take Rediffmail mail backup. Through “Apply filter” option select the folder for which the backup is required and save emails to the desired location.

Wrapping Up

Rediffmail was one of the most widely used email clients. But, due to many reasons and advanced feature of Gmail users want to transfer Rediffmail to Gmail. After taking backup one can get their emails any time even when the system is not connected to a server as well.