Google does not have a tool for moving all of your email from one Google Apps account to another Google account. You need to move your mail from your old Google mail to your computer and then back up to a new Google account.
old GMail → Computer mail app → new GMail
First go to the settings>Forwarding and POP/IMAP of each gMail account and turn on IMAP access
Then open a computer mail app, for this example I will use the Macintosh Mail app, but you can do the same with Outlook and Mozilla’s Thunderbird. Create an account for each of the Google accounts (old and new). In my case it was bill@myoldemailaddress then password, and bill@mynewemailaddress then password. The email client will change your GMail labels into folders and then populate the folders with all of the email from your old account. This will take a while.
old GMail → Computer mail app → new GMail
Then you want to move the mail from your computer to your new Google account. There are a couple of options here. If you want to have the same label structure on the new account, you will have to create that on the new account. Personally, I only want to be able to search the old mail, so I created two labels/folders on the new GMail account: Old Mail and Old Sent Mail. Then in the computer’s app, I selected all of the items from the “All Mail” folder of the old GMail account (all 77k of them), and dragged them to the new account. I did the same with the the sent mail.
old GMail → Computer mail app → new GMail
Since you are moving files back up into the cloud, it could take some time.
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