Import from Gmail, now with only one click inside your Skiff inbox.

Skiff Mail is designed to bring total privacy and security to your inbox, with end-to-end encrypted messages, tracker blocking and protection, and aliases for owning your identity. Today, your journey to privacy becomes even simpler with one-click migration from Gmail.

 inside Skiff Mail. Then, click “import” next to the Gmail icon. You’ll be prompted with a modal to “Sign in with Google,” and you will be redirected to a page to sign in with your Google Account. After that, click “allow” to grant access to Skiff, and you will be redirected to your Skiff inbox.

At the bottom of your screen, you’ll see an update in the bottom right corner that your emails from Gmail are importing. It may take minutes or hours to import large inboxes, which can have tens or hundreds of thousands of emails.

If you want to disable import, simply visit the import page again and click “disable” next to the Gmail icon.

Your Gmail inbox will continue to sync with your Skiff account until you disable import from the import settings page. This means that new emails sent to your Gmail account will also be sent to your Skiff inbox; they will remain marked as read inside Skiff.

If you want them to be unread inside Skiff, we would suggest enabling forwarding from Gmail to Skiff instead, which will send over new emails to Skiff. You can see instructions on enabling forwarding inside the 

Not yet, but this is coming soon. You’ll be able to apply labels to all imported mail, or categorize it into a folder. If you want to take advantage of this feature, we would suggest waiting to import your emails and joining our 

Yes. Until you disconnect your inbox from the import page, new emails sent to your Gmail account will continue to populate inside your Skiff account.

Yes! If you are importing thousands of emails, it may take time for all of your emails to be properly indexed and searchable. Then, you will be able to search email subject, content, sender, and to/cc/bcc addresses.

Does imported mail count towards my storage quota?

Yes. All imported mail counts towards your storage quota, just like normal received mail.

What happens if I run out of storage space?

If you run out of storage space during the import process, the import will stop, and you will be unable to send or receive emails. You can upgrade to 100 GB of storage on the Pro plan, and 1 TB of storage on the Business plan from the in-app 

One-click Gmail import to Skiff

 out a new design for Pages (FKA documents) on Skiff. As tens of thousands of individuals and teams have signed up to use Skiff, we’ve received thousands of feature ideas and support requests via our 

. Many of these requests center on the same theme: making it easier to find and organize your information on Skiff.

Now, pages are structured with three new features: Titles, icons, and descriptions.

New page titles synchronize with your dashboard and file tree, making it easier for you to organize, find, and share pages in your workspace.

Icons enable creative customization for every page in Skiff. Click the icon at the top of every page (or to the left of page titles in the sidebar) to customize the page icon. Choose the icon and color that best fit your work.

Optional page descriptions provide additional context and information. To edit a page description, select the page’s title, and an area for description text will open. From there, add any relevant information, context, or descriptors to the page.

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