Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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taulealoen wrote:What happens if I didn't POP my ldsmail in time? Can I still retrieve it if it's been 6 months or is it gone forever and it sucks to be me?
You might be in luck. See this post.
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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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russellhltn wrote:You might be in luck.
According to the post just prior to yours, it appears that things have changed. The poster got lucky thanks to some help from Headquarters.
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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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Can I still retrieve my myldsmail email? I have been trying to reach it and it's going to be two years already. Please help me out. My ldsmail account is [redacted]. thank you!
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armzyj wrote:Can I still retrieve my myldsmail email? I have been trying to reach it and it's going to be two years already.
After this length of time, probably not. Work with your ward clerk to contact the Global Service Center and see if your account is still on the system. Access usually goes away after around 60 days, and the account usually is deleted not long after that.
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armzyj wrote:it's going to be two years already.
According to a prior post, it would have been permanently deleted at 18 months.
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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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I just return from my mission and i want to serve my account to gmail, and am greatful to serve all my things here
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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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The post linked in the first post in this thread has some useful information about timing of account actions:

https://tech.lds.org/forum/viewtopic.ph ... 87#p153380

I'm afraid I'm not acquainted with exact procedures to download and transfer email. Some details would depend on your operating system and available tools. It's not POP-based, but one of the first options I would likely attempt would be to forward each message to a more permanent account.
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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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Thanks so much! This helped a ton!!! Couldn't figure out why it said "Error: This account cannot be imported right now. Please try again later." but now it we could fix it. Thanks again!
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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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Hey, So I saw the pop screen the first two times when I signed in to my account but I put it off, now it doesn't show up anymore. All it does is take me strait to my email, since I don't have my password it will not let me transfer my emails. I've only been home for about a month so if I could get some advice, I would really appreciate it!
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Re: Transferring myldsmail emails to gmail (via POP?)

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If we have lost/forgotten the 10-digit password required to export the emails via POP, is there a way that we can reset that, or a way we can retrieve it?
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