Email Accounts which Trueswitch allows you to migrate to and from

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Microsoft launched a website couple of days back to give you reasons for switching from Yahoo Mail to Hotmail. Hotmail already supports many other email providers through which you can import your email account to Hotmail but for Free Yahoo Mail account which does not support POP,  we need to use a third-party service. We use service from the vendor called TrueSwitch, which has already been discussed here on TWC. This website helps us to migrate from almost ANY email account to a select number of email accounts for free.

To give you an illustration, lets try to migrate a Yahoo mail account to Hotmail:

  • To do so, visit thet TrueSwitch site

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  • Enter your Free Yahoo Mail account details under the “Enter the address and password of the account you’re copying from:”
  • Enter your Hotmail account details under the “Enter the address (@hotmail.com or @live.com) and password you’re copying to:”
  • Click on “Copy to Windows Live Hotmail”
  • You will see a congratulations window which will confirm your action.

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  • All your yahoo details along with the contacts will be migrated in 24  hours.

But there are 3  caveats !

  • If you have free Yahoo mail account say of [email protected] or [email protected] then you will get an error message.

 

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In short you will be able to migrate ONLY from the following mail accounts / domains:

aim.com, ameritech.net, aol.com, att.net, bellsouth.net, comcast.net, cs.com, earthlink.net, flash.net, gmail.com, googlemail.com, hotmail.com, juno.com, juno.net, live.com, mac.com, msn.com, netzero.com, netzero.net, nvbell.net, optonline.net, pacbell.net, peoplepc.com, prodigy.net, q.com, qwest.net, rocketmail.com, sbcglobal.net, sbcyahoo.net, snet.net, swbell.net, verizon.net, wans.net, yahoo.com, ymail.com, yahoo.ca, live.ca, hotmail.ca.

This means that using this service you can’t switch your @yahoo.in or @yahoo.co.in and many other such.

  • The second caveat or twist in the story you will see when you are trying to import your Yahoo Mail account to the Live powered domains and mails i.e. if you have a Live@Edu powered mail account or an enterprise account then it will not work. To confirm this I tried our local UG email address which is powered by Windows Live and it returned the error.

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As far as Windows Live services are concerned, this service will allow you to migrate to the following domains only:

hotmail.com, hotmail.ca, msn.com, live.com, live.ca, q.com

In short, local domains like live.in, etc are not supported! The service thus works for limited set of domains as of now.

  • Finally, the service doesn’t sync your Calendars. You will have to do so manually.

As can be seen, TrueSwitch also allows you to switch to Gmail, Yahoo, Comcast, AOL and other domains too, apart from Windows Live Hotmail.

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Harsh Mahajan is a Microsoft Student Partner. A technology enthusiast at heart, he has a tremendous passion for emerging technologies & trends like Cloud Computing & Windows Azure. He is associated with the International .Net Association as Brains Unleashed leader.

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  • ErnieK

    It to does not work with Lycos or GMX mail accounts. I contacted Trueswitch just to double check this and they confirmed it.

    Lycos is making it more and more awkward for FREE account holders to access their accounts using any mail checking program (at the moment this is impossible) As I have over 400 mails in these accounts I do not fancy moving each one independently. Afetr 12 years of using Lycos (originally Eudora)mail they have finally forced me to move else where.

    Does anyone know of a good program that would move these mails to another provider? Preferably free as this will (hopefully) be a one time action.
    ErnieK

  • http://www.thewindowsclub.com/about-twc-author-harsh-mahajan HarshM@TWC

    Erniek we will try to find something which really works for you.

  • ErnieK

    HarshM
    Thanks. I have searched but cannot find anything that works with Lycos free accounts. The thought of opening and forwarding all these mails individually makes me shudder. (Forwarding is only active after you open a mail and then only for that individual mail as far as I can see). The [users of] mail checking program (Pop Peeper – http://www.poppeeper.com that I have used for years are also stumped
    ErnieK
    ErnieK

  • rasheed abdul

    i need mail address i want to contact good people