How to migrate your email to Hotmail or Gmail

Summary: College is coming to an end for many, and so will your email accounts. This guide will show you how to keep your old college emails.

By Zack Whittaker | July 4, 2011 -- 17:42 GMT (10:42 PDT)

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Now you need to add your new email account to Outlook to transport your old email items over. Simply select File (the orange button) and hit Add account, and run through the process again.

Be sure to enter the settings from the new email account, too. If you are using Gmail or Hotmail, you can simply type in your name, email address and password and it will do it for you -- saving you time and effort.

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Good for when changing hosting services

Unfortunately, I discovered the drap and drop via Outlook trick AFTER changing beteen ISPs using different versions of hosting software (which meant I couldn't restore to the new one from a backup of the old one). I forwarded the emails I wanted. How tedious was that!!!

Not on Outlook here, but I thought using the Ctrl-while-drag-and-drop (copy) worked between IMAP accounts.

Patanjali
4 July, 2011 20:16

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Outlook Express/Windows (live) Mail

Pretty Good Walk-through!
Same procedure will work with Outlook Express (except for creating an exchange server rule to forward to new account). For that matter it can work with any mail reader that you can add multiple accounts. Thunderbird for example. (Available for many platforms.)

Also if you are using Outlook, you can make deleting a little easier by setting up auto-archive to delete the old email.

flippurr
5 July, 2011 09:55

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Why do things the easy way, Zack,

when one can do them the hard way ? I don't wish to comment on how to forward mail to Hotmail, but for users who wish to do so to a Gmail account, then the simplest method is to use Mail Fetcher (https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=21288)....

Henri

mhenriday
5 July, 2011 10:51

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- RE: How to migrate your email to Hotmail or Gmail
  
  @mhenriday I agree -- but this is a 'one size fits all' solution for the very vast majority.
  
  zwhittaker
  6 July, 2011 07:35
  
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fivish
5 July, 2011 11:41

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RE: How to migrate your email to Hotmail or Gmail

Why anyone would move to Hotmail is beyond me. All I get is the message 'Windows live hotmail was unable to complete the request'. Lots of users are getting this and Microsoft is doing nothing to fix it.

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6 July, 2011 08:52

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RE: How to migrate your email to Hotmail or Gmail

Only problem with this is if you happen to be using a different PC (say when travelling), if it does not have Outlook Express installed you will have problems and likely not be able to access your mail account. You cannot blindly assume that you will be able to download OutlookExpress to any PC you might happen to be using (possible lack of admin privileges).

renosablast
6 July, 2011 09:16

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'Split-view' is what I need for Gmail...

...at least let Googlers provide the option of employing it in Gmail. Having to click 'back' in order to select a particular message makes me sick and is time-consuming.

bogaboga
6 July, 2011 11:15

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No link provided to download trial Office

Thanks.

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6 July, 2011 19:59

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