For this process to work using POP3, first you have to enable pop3 on the old account -
Edit: Migrating using IMAP is much smoother, but probably needs admin access to the destination Google Workspace domain. My later post about moving an entire domain covers this method of migration, using Google Workspace Data Migration Service.
The process for moving all old emails from your old account to the new account is documented at the top half of the page at
with special attention needed for the "Server denied POP3 access" part, because with pop.gmail.com, we would need to go through all the steps at
(At the end, you get the message "Your messages are being imported ... may take several hours ... up to two days ... You can close this wind
Then, the process for setting up email forwarding, so that all new emails go to the new account, is at
Regarding exporting and importing of contacts -
1. If no contacts have been manually saved, then just importing the emails to the new account will probably enable the automatic pop-up of the email addresses
2. In case that does not happen, or if you wish to make the contacts visible immediately, you can go to contacts.google.com with the old login - the contacts which were not manually saved would be visible under "Other Contacts" on the left-hand side. Export has an option for "Selected contacts", so if you select the "Other Contacts", you can export them.
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