Blogs on Gmail and Google Accounts

Recently, the Gmail Help Community has received quite a few queries on this topic involving AOL, Yahoo!, and Outlook accounts. As an attempt towards making the users more comfortable by incorporating all the screenshots, this three-part blog aims to explore the three inbuilt Gmail processes through which one can bring over emails from another account over to a Gmail account. Following the first two parts where we looked at how to bring over emails from AOL and Yahoo! accounts, we now look at how we can bring over emails from a Hotmail account in this final part of the blog. Gmail includes the following ways to bring over emails from other service providers: The POP3 fetch. Gmailify (using the IMAP protocol). Import (using the ShuttleCloud API). The test Hotmail account, like my test AOL and Yahoo! accounts, has 2-step verification enabled.  If you want to enable 2-step verification for your Hotmail account, you can do that by following the suggestions included in...

Recently, the Gmail Help Community has received quite a few queries on this topic involving AOL, Yahoo!, and Outlook accounts. As an attempt towards making the users more comfortable by making the process more visual for them using screenshots, this three-part blog aims to explore the three inbuilt Gmail processes through which one can bring over emails from another account over to a Gmail account. Following the first part where we looked at how to bring over emails from an AOL account, we shall look at how we can bring over emails from a Yahoo! account in this second part. The final part will be on how to bring over emails from a Hotmail account. It is best to mention it upfront that like my AOL account, my Yahoo! account also has 2-step verification enabled. If you would like to enable it for your Yahoo! account, refer to instructions here:  https://help.yahoo.com/kb/add-two-step-verification-extra-security-sln5013.html .  If you do not have 2-step verification to your ...

Recently, the Gmail Help Community has received quite a few queries on this topic involving AOL, Yahoo!, and Outlook accounts. As an attempt towards making the users more comfortable, this three-part blog aims to explore the various inbuilt Gmail processes through which one can bring over emails from another account over to a Gmail account. In this opening part, we look at how we can bring over emails from an AOL account. There will be follow-up blogs on how to bring over emails from Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts as well. In Gmail, these are the included methods of bringing over emails from another account: The POP3 fetch. Gmailify (using the IMAP protocol). Import (using the ShuttleCloud API). It is worth noting that the AOL account used for testing has 2-step verification enabled. If your AOL account isn't and you would like to do it, here is the help article on how to do it: https://help.aol.com/articles/2-step-verification-stronger-than-your-password-alone . If your Go...