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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.

Finally migration tool come in Gmail. Gmail now migrates email and contacts from other email providers, including Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL, and many more( see the list below). It's much easier to make the transition now that you can bring along all your old email and contacts from other email accounts. You can even have your messages forwarded from your old account for 30 days,



This new feature is available in all newly created Gmail accounts, but according to company it is slowly being rolled out to all existing Gmail accounts. Just go to Accounts and Import tab under Settings & just click the Import mail and contacts button. now Enter the password for your other email account and click Continue. Select all the check boxes (See the Upper Screenshot no 2) that apply according to your needs, after selecting options click Start Import. The import will continue if you leave the Settings page or sign out of Gmail. According to Comapny it may take 24-48 hours for apearing messages in your Inbox

Following email providers are supported

Importing is powered by Esaya Inc.'s TrueSwitch email account switching services. By partnering TrueSwitch definrtly Google Will gain many new gmail users. After this step for users it's easy to migrate therie existing emails in new Gmail. For businesses and schools who using Google Apps won't see these new migration options.

Wise Stamp a really powerful add on for email signature. It replace the traditional way of email signature. With help of this add on user able to manage multiple signatures for Eg: Different signature for Work Email & another signature for personal email & you can give customized name for each signature. It works with all web mail providers like Gmail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail, AOL


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In this version the user interface improved & it also have bug fixes

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Instant messaging or chat from your web based Inbox is a old concept now GMail and Yahoo is already providing browser based chat platform. Gmail also rolled out voice and video chat capabilities via web Interface but in this Hotmail was so behind the bar, however, now Hotmail rolled out similar features for their users.

User of France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the U.K. already enjoying web based chat and Now company also release a second faze updates for user of United States, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, the Netherlands and Norway. The company says, The feature is available through Hotmail and also through the people page that lists a Windows Live user's contacts.

Web based chat is already in Gmail, yahoo and now Google also rolled out new updates with xmpp open standards which enables user to chat with other networks like AIM, Yahoo etc. Meebo is already providing this too

Microsoft's Hotmail site now lets people send and receive instant messages.

I do proffer to chat via desktop interface because its fast and provide more features like file transfer but web base chat can be helpful when you are away from your computer, using your friend's computer , In cafe or having a new system but not yet configured and you need instant help from your friend via IM.