Comments on: Switching from Hotmail to Gmail

By: Top Web Brands .. « Your Techbox

Top Web Brands .. « Your Techbox — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 06:22:30 +0000

[...] Hotmail – still ranks higher in the UK. A recent tool released by Google which makes it easier totransfer years and years of Hotmail emails to Gmail won’t make things easier for Microsoft’s online side, [...]

By: Chitra vasudevan

Chitra vasudevan — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 09:01:15 +0000

I was in the process of doing this. I am happy and I will try immediatly. Thanks

By: CharlesDLM

CharlesDLM — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:14:32 +0000

I switched from hotmail to gmail years ago and never looked back my reasons for doing so:

1. Gmail intergrates easy with the iphone (with hotmail you need a seperate application)
2. You can intergrate your own domain address via gmail –
3. Loads faster
4. Easier to navigate
5. Setup via outlook is much easier! (Don’t undersatnd why a google to microsoft setup is easier then a microsoft to microsoft…!!!)

By: Franners

Franners — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:02:24 +0000

Google also supports this through Google Apps so you can run the gmail interface on your own domain and import all your legacy emails. Perfect.

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:35:28 +0000

Anyone else noted that if you search for Hotmail in Google invariably there is always a story about how great switching over to Gmail is about two lines down?

I did and switched over and the importing process doesnt really work for me. It got up to around January this year and gave up. Also try getting some technical support from google. I couldnt find it anywhere. Having said that its MUCH better than hotmail in so many ways and I will slowly be transferring everything over and consigning hotmail to the same bin as internet explorer.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:35:08 +0000

I’ve just checked another of my Gmail accounts and the process is exactly as described in the blog entry. However, it seems my other Gmail account has been upgraded, and in this case, the process described in my last comment applies.

By: Paul B

Paul B — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:22:44 +0000

Just to add my own experience of porting my Hotmail account to Gmail, I found there was no section entitled “Get mail from other accounts” in my Gmail account settings.

There was, however, a “Check mail using POP3″ section which contained an “Add POP3 e-mail account” button. Once I’d clicked on this, and entered my hotmail address as the one I wanted to check, the screen shown in the blog entry above came up. But the port number and POP3 server were already entered, and correct.

From there on, everything went according to the blog post, and my e-mails were imported from Hotmail. I should also note that there was a “Import mail and contacts” section in Gmail’s account settings, but this wouldn’t work for me.