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As Gmail rolled out a migration tool for new users last month where other email user able to migrates email and contacts from other email providers, including Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL, and many more( see the list here ). You can able to get messages to your Gmail that forwarded from your old account for 30 days, That migration tool was only for new user til now but it's available for all Gmail users whether it's a new account or existing.

This is a major step from Gmail. As all people do have email accounts in other service like Yahoo Mail and AOl and it's to hard for all to switch over with new Gmail because as time goes your email subscription become vast and you can't remember all the websites you subscribe or contacts that have your old emails ID so because of this it's to hard to switch over with new email

Google do provide tools so you can get your mail from other accounts in Gmail using POP3 or you can setup a IMAP with your mail client or server. Further ahead Gmail also allow you to set up your old email as"Send mail as" where you can "Reply to emails" by using your old email Ids so you don't have to go to your old account for replying the email but this can't solve the problem. These are the tools allow you to handle your emails from Gmail

But user who having free mail accounts with Yahoo and AOl not able to use"IMAP", "POP" or "Forward Email" feature. For them it's to hard to switch to Gmail and mostly people do use these webmail service and many times we need some old emails to read that time we need to login to these old services to get the email.

Gmails new migration tool solve this problem entirely. When you switch over to new gmail or your existing Gmail just go to Settings > Accounts and Import > there just provide your old email details to Gmail like email id and password and transfer your entire Yahoo Inbox or AOL Inbox or any webmail that supported to Gmail. As Gmail stated that it take time to import all emails over to your Gmail. It depends how many emails you have in your old accounts. Once the process completed after that you never have to go to your old accounts for getting the emails and you can search the emails within the Gmail interface only and still you able to get the emails over to Gmail from your old account for 30 days. that's not all it also takes your entire contact list to Gmail so you don't have to loos your old contacts too.

This entire Importing process is powered by Esaya Inc.'s TrueSwitch so now It's much easier to make the transition now that you can bring along all your old email and contacts from other email accounts.