When you use Copy from Gmail, ShareGate Migrate transfers your Gmail labels and categories to Exchange Categories. This helps preserve how your emails were organized in Gmail without duplicating messages.
Converted categories
Gmail categories (such as Social, Promotions, Updates, and Forums) are directly converted to Exchange Categories.
Gmail system labels are mapped as follows:
Starred: Flagged in Outlook.
Important: Marked with Importance: High
Snoozed: Copied without their snooze schedule.
Sent: Emails are copied to the Sent folder in Exchange.
Draft: Emails are copied to the Drafts folder in Exchange.
All Mail: Emails not labeled as Inbox, Sent, or Draft are copied to the Archive folder in Exchange.
Custom labels: Converted to Exchange custom categories.
Non-migrated Gmail system labels are:
Chats.
Scheduled.
Note: No Exchange category is created for Snoozed, Sent, Draft, or All Mail during copy actions.
What to expect in Outlook
Unlike Gmail, Outlook uses Categories instead of Labels, and the user experience is different:
Labels will not appear as folders at the destination.
Nesting from Gmail (label hierarchies) is not preserved.
Tip: Use Outlook’s Category filtering to view emails by their original Gmail labels.
You can also use this filtering to manually move emails to corresponding folders at the destination after the migration, if you prefer to organize them this way.