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Switch my email from Yahoo to Gmail?
I at least 10 years of Yahoo mail. Tons of emails in customized folders, etc...I also have my email address on various places, the simple identifying of all those places (much less notifying/updating) would be VERY tenuous.
However, like many people, over the last few years I have become so extremely disenchanted with Yahoo that I'm ready to make the major effort to change. Yahoo has tried so hard to imitate Gmail but has become too fancy for its britches...the pages take forever to load, the buttons aren't clickable until 10 seconds after you click them, you delete email in position #2 and realize that it wasn't done loading so you just deleted the wrong email - in short, it sucks. They took away text alerts and the simple, link-centric format. They don't have any free features that Gmail does.
Anyone have some suggestions for how to extract mail + attachments (probably a hundred thousand) from Yahoo and get to Gmail? I can do a lot of vb programming, would accessing Yahoo from Outlook and then automating Outlook get me anywhere?? Would Outlook even correctly represent my custom Yahoo folders?
I probably don't need 50-60% of them no, but I do use email as a way of storing important stuff 'in the cloud'. documents, information, scans, pictures, etc.
OK thanks...so I'm screwed. No wonder these companies keep their customers. It's a captive audience is all. I wonder if Gmail has some interesting solution. They sure have ways to import contacts..
None of the answers were correct; I found the answer myself eventually. Gmail has a feature called Mail Fetcher. Move all of your yahoo emails out of folders and into your Inbox. Then Gmail will automatically xfer them over using POP method.
No best answer.
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- airdogspace2Lv 77 years agoFavorite Answer
One do you really need all those e-mails? Like old ones? You probably don't.
I don't see a way in yahoo to export them, even if you did I doubt it would keep your settings.
Your best bet is to get a gmail account, start having yahoo forward or send your e-mails over to your gmail account. (that way when you reply to people they see your new address).
You would have to set up the folders again.
So you aren't really moving any old e-mails over. You are just starting new with Gmail... and from this time forward you use gmail. The hope is you get less and less e-mails in yahoo. and once you realize you don't need all of those old e-mails you can shut down the yahoo account.
- 7 years ago
there isn't a way for now in yahoo to export them, but you can auto forward the future mails to your gmail. best way is to get a gmail account, and set the IMAP POP3 settings and done. may be you will have to set up the folders and labels again in gmail.
