Gmail Allows Mail and Contact Imports for Older Accounts

As declared on the Hotmail Blog, the people at Google (s goog) have added an essential refresh to Gmail: mail and contact import highlights for everybody. Fairly annoyingly, these highlights were already accessible for recently made Gmail accounts, however were not accessible for the a large number of us who have had Gmail represents some time. A considerable lot of us additionally have old email accounts that were around before Gmail arrived. The bringing in method is simple, albeit some holding up is required.

To import email from another record into your Gmail account, simply go to the "Settings" connect that is on the upper right of your Gmail record, and snap it. When you've done that, hit the "Records and Import" tab, as found in the screen capture above. You can import from Yahoo (s yhoo), Hotmail (s msft), AOL, or other webmail or POP3 accounts by means of a wizard. There's a "Take in More" interface on the off chance that you get confounded. Note that you should supply the secret word for your other record.

I experienced the import procedure for a more seasoned Hotmail account I have. I haven't gotten every one of the messages imported yet, yet Google affirms this is not out of the ordinary: "Replicating mail over normally takes two or three days, incidentally up to seven days — yet in the long run everything arrives," says the post reporting the new highlights. You can likewise demand to have email sent to the next record sent to your Gmail represent 30 days.

This was bound to happen from Google, yet it will be helpful to not need to bounce between email accounts constantly — particularly since one of Gmail's qualities is its gigantic stockpiling limit; that ought to enable me to cut two or three records that I have by and large.