does anyone with a hotmail account know how to get your incoming mail forwarded to a new email address. i am switching to gmail and am trying to combine my accounts into one.

4/25/2006 11:13:37 PM

isnt hotmail like yahoo where you have to pay for forwarding?

4/25/2006 11:24:04 PM

lol


I doubt you'll get MS to forward your email to a @gmail acct for free.


It would be slightly humorous though.

4/25/2006 11:25:22 PM

I know of no way to forward email sent to your hotmail account to your gmail account. There may be a way to pay for the option but I've never seen it, nor heard about how to do it.

(thx to google, see this app: http://www.e-eeasy.com/GetMail.aspx)

But here's my solution for importing your existing hotmail into gmail... (not sure if it works but should)

1/ Open up Outlook Express and create a new account (setup with hotmail http server)
2/ Create a new local folder in Outlook Express
3/ Download/Copy all your email to your local folder
4/ Export/Import email into Thunderbird
5/ Use this app to forward all your existing email to Gmail
http://www.marklyon.org/gmail/

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 11:31 PM. Reason : .]

4/25/2006 11:29:14 PM

That's a pain in the ass, if he wants to keep getting new emails @gmail, and not just archive his old ones.



But yeah, it might be your only option.

4/25/2006 11:44:22 PM

1) Setup your email client to receive hotmail and gmail (I know Outlook Express and Outlook 2003 can do this).
2) Setup a rule in your email client to automatically forward to gmail (if thats what you REALLY want) or move the message to your gmail account folder.
3) Profit

4/25/2006 11:57:43 PM

Wait....


I must be confused here.

I thought hotmail wouldn't let you use pop3 unless you paid.

4/25/2006 11:58:45 PM