When a friend was physically moving and needed to retire their Cableone.com account and move to a GMail account, I thought it would be quite easy. After an hour I realized, not so much.
Here's the tricky part, Cableone.com mail accounts are already hosted by Google, so the pop account questions asked during GMail import are not what you would expect.
In Gmail select "Accounts and Import", then "Import mail and contacts"
Email address is really "myemail@cableone.net", the ".net" threw me.
Pop server is "pop.gmail.com"
Port is "995", select "edit" and select "SSL".
3 comments:
Fast forward to 2014.....Cableone now has imap? woudl the imap.gmail.com go in place of the "pop"
I tried it originally...it didn't work. At least filling in the info you provided it is now telling me email and password do not match as well as still the comment:
Gmail couldn't identify your POP server. Please enter your POP server information below.
Fast forward to 2014.....Cableone now has imap? woudl the imap.gmail.com go in place of the "pop"
I tried it originally...it didn't work. At least filling in the info you provided it is now telling me email and password do not match as well as still the comment:
Gmail couldn't identify your POP server. Please enter your POP server information below.
Found this post 5/10/21 while trying to transfer email from my CableOne account that was about to be deleted by CableOne. (To better serve their customers they say, no less. Pitiful.) I fought the same issue way too many times without finding how to get Gmail to find my account. Finally figured out that I had to hit the "Enter" key on my keyboard after entering the "POP Server" address to get it to continue to the next option screen. Then all was well.
Hope this helped someone somewhere sometime. :-)
Also hope that there's a better option available in the future for ISP than CableOne, but I digress. ;-)
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