Zoho Mail to Google Workspace

Leaving Zoho Mail for Google Workspace with every folder, contact and calendar intact — no export files, no per-user setup beyond an app password, and the old mailboxes keep working until the domain moves.

Typical moves.

Outgrowing Zoho

A company that started on Zoho Mail and now needs Workspace for Drive, Meet and the apps people already use at home.

An acquisition on Zoho

Fold a Zoho-based subsidiary into the group's Workspace with their mail history and calendars.

Consolidating suites

One suite, one bill, one admin console: move the Zoho domain into Google and retire the subscription.

In detail.

Mail → Gmail

Folders become labels, read and flagged state kept, original dates kept; read over IMAP with each mailbox's app-specific password.

Contacts

Read over CardDAV, written to Google Contacts with groups.

Calendars

Read over CalDAV; recurrence, reminders and attendees kept as data — nobody is re-invited.

One CSV of app passwords

No Zoho API client, no OAuth: users generate an app-specific password once; you upload the list. Stored encrypted.

Users matched by address

The CSV is the user list; the assessment reads every mailbox's size over IMAP.

Domain cutover

MX, SPF and DKIM switched to Google with a check before you flip; forwarding set in Zoho for the transition.

Good to know before you plan

  • Zoho groups, aliases, signatures, mail filters, WorkDrive files and Cliq are listed by name for follow-up — app passwords cannot change Zoho settings.
  • Each mailbox needs IMAP enabled and an app-specific password (Zoho requires two-factor for those).
  • Speed per mailbox is set by Zoho's IMAP limits (about four messages a second); workers move mailboxes in parallel.

Six steps, one page each.

Connect both tenants, assess, match users, migrate in waves, verify and keep in sync, cut over. Every step lives on its own tab with the numbers that matter and the next action ready.

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