Salvaging personal emails from work email address prior to new employment.

[TheMotherSide]

I've been with the same employer for years and am thinking of moving on, amicably, in the new year.

When I do, I will lose my work email. My work email account is not obviously linked by name to my workplace, just hosted by the employer.
Over the years, I have occasionally used my work email to receive personal emails for cross-over purposes; pension, union, OT, GP etc. This is with my employer's consent ‐they have been copied in on many of these.

Is there a really easy way to save emails or migrate them to another email address in preparation for moving on from my workplace? Or will it be a big faff of having to trawl through my inbox to forward individual emails to my personal email address?

What seemed convenient before now seems a bit of a headache.

Just search by sender? Then forward the batch to your personal email and change the contact details to your personal email too.

Not sure why that would be hard. You could always save to a memory stick if you can't face forwarding them.

Many employers won't let you save information to a memory stick.

Do you not have your personal emails in a separate folder?

If it’s outlook could you set up a rule to forward everything and then do a sweep of your inbox
so forward any [email protected] emails to [email protected]. Then do a rule for [email protected] etc
of course this will only work if you’ve got a manageable number of email addresses that you’ve had personal emails from and you know them. Although I think you can make the rules more generic. So if several GPs from a surgery have emailed you, you could just have the domain in the rule so it would say something like any emails from gpsurgery.com should be forwarded

Agree with @Fingersverytightlycrosssed this is exactly what I would do.

Thank you, all. I'll crack on with it now, I am feeling a bit daunted by facilitating a new start, but you're right ‐this needn't be hard!

Going forward, I'd suggest setting up an email for any pension/union things that you might want to cc work onto but don't necessarily want them having your main personal email address. That way, you don't need forward anything on if you leave but work things are still separate from your personal emails.