Just last week we wrote about a service Yahoo! provides that lets you bring your existing emails, contacts, and calendar from your existing email account. The only problem, as my brother pointed out when using it, is that you could get locked out of your Gmail account temporarily because of the heavy access:
My only complaint is in the process of using this feature it logs into your Gmail account who knows how many times which caused it to lock my account with Gmail due to suspicious activities. I was locked out for over 26 hours in 2 days with no access to new emails what so ever. So while this is a great feature I do stress caution in using it.
Now you can also switch to Hotmail using the same service that Yahoo! incorporates. With it you can switch to Hotmail from any of these providers: AOL, Gmail, Comcast, Yahoo!, Cox, Earthlink, MSN, Netscape, Netzero, Juno, CS, Optonline, and Worldnet. It takes just a minute to initiate the transfer process, but it can take up to 24-hours to complete. Here’s the three steps that you go through:
- Enter the email address and password of both accounts.
- Choose what you want to transfer.
- Sit on your hands and stare at the ceiling for 24-hours.
As you can see the process to switch from one email provider to another is no longer the pain that it once was. Heck, this is easier than switching between desktop apps that manage your emails (at one point I had a heck of a time trying to go from Thunderbird to Outlook, and visa versa).
I have a feeling that Google might also start using Trueswitch because visiting this URL gives a "Forbidden" warning instead of the standard "Not Found" message. That essentially means that the directory has been created, and it probably even contains files. Of course, I could be looking too far into that.
This is great, I hope all Email sites provide this service free of charge, and advertise it. The resulting freedom to switch Email providers will greatly encourage competition between the sites.
Sweet software, but I would have to decline as newest version of Live Mail doesn’t have 100% support for anything but IE and IE based browsers.
Doesn’t it fully support Firefox? I like Opera, though.
Sorry, I’m sticking with GMail.
IMO, Hotmail is the worst out of the 3….
Tell me again why you would switch from gmail?
That would be my reply also – “Why would I switch from Gmail?”
I just switched from Hotmail to Gmail because the ads at Gmail are less intrusive that the ones at Hotmail. Plus Gmail catches like 99.9% of my spam while Hotmail stills lets through quite a few.
Exactly
It does actually support Firefox.
Believe it or not there are some people that don’t like Gmail. So while you may not see the intial reason to make the switch, there are people out there who are looking to do just that.
I also love Gmail because it catches almost all of my spam.
I love Gmail, but there are some things about it that really irritate me. I don’t plan to switch but I can see why somebody would.
Hotmail at least allows you to block an address, which Gmail still doesn’t. Yes, I know that in Gmail you can “filter to trash,” but if an ex is harrassing you that just doesn’t do the job.
i still prefer gmail
gmail is alot better than that stiffy hotmail