Import mail and contacts to Gmail from another Web-mail

Gmail is not just popular, and very popular, but for one reason or another, we can not always give up old accounts. Transferring mail and contacts from other systems manually though possible, but usually not easy. So I decided to talk about how to transfer data from other systems using a standard google now feature.

I myself for a long time, I have a box on yahoo and despite the fact that I told them in general no longer use it, I would be a shame to lose messages and contacts, which for some reason I kept there. Not that there were too many, but still.

So I went to the page with your Gmail settings

Introduced email address and password.

The system notified that the import has started. And in my case, I received a notice of termination of import, or rather saw him in the morning, that is, imports took at least 8-10 hours. Yes, it's not fast, but you must admit, the possibility is very good, because I do not have a POP access, and I do not know how things can be done without making a lot of effort.

One negative I can tell. As in the case of some mobile phones, you can face the problem of the Russian language. I do not know who of the systems is to blame, but the contacts with Russian names came "curves".

Note that this option imports is right if you decide to give up a different address as the new mail will be delivered out of the box in gmail only for 30 days. But you do not need to have an open POP. As we switch to a single box wrote. Now you also have the technical ability to work with closed systems such as Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL.