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Can I pull old gmail accounts into a new google workspace setup?

We finally got proper email on our own domain through workspace. The team still has years of client threads sitting in personal gmail accounts. Is there a clean way to bring those in, or do we just set up forwarding and move on?
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theo_66 Nov 12, 2026
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After the migration, keep the old gmail forwarding to the new address for a few months and add an auto-reply with the new one. People who've had the old address for years will keep using it otherwise.
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robert.smith Oct 16, 2026
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You can't convert a personal gmail account into a Workspace account, but you can copy its email across. The admin console has a data migration tool that lets you pick Gmail as the source and import a mailbox into a Workspace user. You'll need to sign in to the old account or have IMAP access to it during setup. That moves email only. Drive files and contacts are separate: Google Takeout export then upload, or share the files to the new account and make copies. One gotcha: if anyone ever created a personal Google account using an address on your company domain, Workspace flags it as a conflicting account. Sort those out before people start using the new logins.
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