How to migrate your AOL e-mail to Gmail

Hey, are you still using the same ancient AOL email account? Or worst still that the email account offered to you by your ISP. If that may be the fact, then it is high time for you to migrate to Web founded email service called Gmail.

It isn't that difficult to switching one’s old e-mail account to Gmail provided one wants to. Just, follow the steps below:


Importing mail

Old email messages may now be taken over by Gmail, if not deleted from the mail server.

How does one go about doing it?

1- Move to Settings and then to Accounts. Check other mail accounts. Then, click the “Add a POP3 of one’s mail account.

2- Enter the email address of the concerned account to be switched over.

3- Now, enter the password for the email account that you want to migrate, together with the provider’s POP server, name and port number.

4- Deciding on other settings

a-   Deleting previous e-mail messages off of your old account. Only  when Gmail accepts them.
b- Use SSL to check new texts.
c- One may label incoming messages.
d- You can do archiving of received texts.
5- Pres on the icon Add Account .
6- Then  press “Yes” for setting up a custom and “No” if otherwise.
7- Examine the mail fetch history to know your messages are being migrated. Move now to Settings- Accounts. See mail from other accounts and then click on "View history.

Migrating contacts

A few handful of contacts in your old e-mail account may be entered manually in Gmail, but large number of contacts will require exporting to a CSV file. For a handful of contacts certain operations are required.

a-  In the above upper-left hand side select “Contacts”.

b-  Press the “More” button and choose “Import.”

c-  Click  on the “Select file” icon to leaf through the sites of your CSV file. Next  click on “Import.”

Before removing the old email account...

If you are paying for your old e-mail account, then you might as well  keep it open for a while, unless you are cock sure that you’ve upgraded and revised all  online accounts with the new Gmail address.

It is advisable to set up an auto responder for a short period of time. This will alert your contacts that you've switched e-mail providers. Provided, you want selected contacts know. You may always send en-bloc e-mail to just the people you want to inform.

Well, what are you staring at? You are now part of Gmail and enjoy a modern e-mail experience. Accompany your e-mail where ever you go.

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