technocator: Gmail Helps You to Import Your Old Hotmail or Yahoo Mails

Gmail is now the most widely used web based email service. Started since 2004, now Gmail has millions of users world wide and counting. People who used Yahoo and Hotmail earlier largely migrated to Gmail. Interestingly, now Gmail provides an option to migrate your old Hotmail and Yahoo (or any other web based email) mail box to your new Gmail mailbox. If you still remember your old username and password you can try this option to import your old mails to Gmail.

Click the Settings (gear) icon in the top right-hand corner of your Gmail inbox, then select Mail settings.
Under the Accounts and Import tab, click the Import mail and contacts button.

3. You will get a pop up window asking for your source mail ID and password. If you source ID has already configured as secondary email in Gmail account, it will ask only password.

4. Once you are authenticated, you will be asked to provide your preferences of import in next few steps. You can select emails and contacts if you want to import both.

5. After you finish, it may take some time for it to import, but you can check the status of your import by clicking the Accounts and Import tab on the Settings page.

Below are the email accounts from which you can import emails to your Gmail: