Gmail now allows you to import emails and contacts from many other email providers.

These days with many of us having many different email addresses with many different email providers wouldn’t it be nice if all those can be viewed in one place than to switch between different email accounts?

If you use Gmail as your main email account (at least these days) you are in luck. Gmail now allows you import not just emails but contacts as well from any other email providers into Gmail. You can then label those emails so you can easily get to those emails. Isn’t that a cool thing to have on top of the many cool things Gmail provides?

Start by going into Gmail “Settings” page.

Click on the “Accounts and Import” tab. Then click on the “Import mail and contacts” button to start the import process.

Gmail will ask you to enter the email address from where to import the emails and contacts from. On the next page you have to enter the password of the email service you are importing from.

Choose the options to your preference. Keep in mind that this service is not a permanent solution out-of-the-box. It is indeed provided my Gmail to help you transition from other email providers to Gmail. That’s why you see the “Import new mail for 30 days” option. Label the email if you may wish so that you can get to those emails quickly.

Once you start the import process Gmail will confirm with the above page. Keep in mind that the complete import process might take up to 2 days.

If you’d like to know the status of the import process, you can go into the same “Accounts and Import” tab on Gmail Settings and can see the status from there.

Now you might wonder if your existing email provider is supported for the import. Here is a list of email providers supported for import into Gmail,

aol.com
aol.fr
clear.net.nz
cox.net
comcast.net
cs.com
earthlink.net
freenet.de
freeserve.co.uk
gmx.at
gmx.ch
gmx.de
gmx.net
hotmail.com
hotmail.co.uk
hotmail.de
hotmail.fr
Ihug.co.nz
juno.com
laposte.net
live.com
mail.ru
msn.com
netscape.com
netzero.com
neuf.fr
optonline.net
optusnet.com.au
orange.fr
orangehome.co.uk
orcon.net.nz
paradise.net.nz
rr.com
slingshot.co.nz
sprint.ca
sympatico.ca
tiscali.co.uk
verizon.net
voila.fr
wanadoo.co.uk
wanadoo.fr
web.de
worldnet.att.net
yahoo.com
yahoo.co.uk
yahoo.co.in
yandex.ru

I hope you find Gmail’s Mail and Contacts import useful (at least for every 30 days). If you have any questions/comments regarding this please share with us on comments.

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