![]() It won’t pass your contacts along (but any good email service can get contact info from the emails themselves), but it does push all your mail to another service. Other email systems may have similar features buried within their options too, but if no dedicated import feature is available, you can log into Yahoo and setup mail forwarding. It’s as simple as setting up another account (or using an existing one), and using the Import Mail feature. However, moving all your existing emails and contact information over is actually straight-forward, especially with the help of the various migration tools available from the likes of Gmail and Outlook. That will be the painful bit and there is little getting around it (think moving house). You will need to login to each service you use and change your email address over to your new account – if said services allow it.įor example, your Netflix, Amazon, forum logins, Steam, eBay, etc, will all need to be updated individually to your new email address. Any logins that are associated with your Yahoo email address, will not transfer. Thankfully, there is a certain amount of automation that can be used to make the whole process much less stressful (although, not entirely stress free).įirst off, I need to remind you dear readers of some limitations involved in migrating email accounts. The thing is, migrating 17 years worth of emails, contacts and all the logins that account is associated with, is no small task. I only ever logged into Yahoo to change settings… or reset my password after the breach (that’s a friendly reminder for you to reset your password too, if you haven’t done so already).Īfter all this time and with the recent security scare, I think it’s about time to move away from Yahoo, and with that, this is a guide to help others that are thinking of doing the same – providing Yahoo enables the feature after it turned it off. What’s interesting is that, for the last 15 years of using said account, I never really needed to log into Yahoo directly, I simply used Microsoft Outlook and eventually Mozilla Thunderbird to download and manage all my mail through POP and IMAP. Well, I’ll be honest, I actually do have a couple of accounts open with the service, mainly because they were my first email accounts set up the oldest of which is 17 years old – they grow up so fast. Being the tech enthusiast that I am, you’d think I would have dropped Yahoo long ago. No email service is perfect, but most are better than the sorry state that Yahoo has been left in all this time. The interface became slow, more ads piled on, then throw in a security breach that took over two years to find, the recent scandal involving the NSA, and another confirmed breech of an older hack… it’s about time to switch providers. While it may have started out as one of the original founding free email services along with Hotmail (later renamed Live, then Outlook), Yahoo Mail has suffered from years of neglect. ![]() ![]() Yahoo Mail has been falling out of favor with users for a long time now.
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