Now that
Hotmail started to support POP3, you can import messages from Hotmail accounts into Gmail using
the mail fetcher.
Go to
the Accounts tab from Gmail's settings page and click on "Add a mail account you own". Type the Hotmail address and use the following settings:
Username: the complete email address
Password: your Hotmail password
POP Server: pop3.live.com
Port: 995
Enable all the four subsequent options (the only option that's required is "Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail").
Since the mail fetcher emulates a standard mail client that supports POP, it will check for new messages periodically. You also have the option to add the Hotmail address as
a custom "From" address so you no longer have to compose messages in Hotmail.
Labels: Gmail
Varun said on March 27, 2009 11:56 AM PDT:
Ha ha... Those dependent on Hotmail no longer have to :)
Varun
Need to write pop3 in your instructions
said on March 27, 2009 12:32 PM PDT:
Nice... I'd prefer that Hotmail allowed me to directly forward to Gmail, but this works nicely as well.
Sasa said on March 27, 2009 12:36 PM PDT:
Only noobs use Hotmail now ...
Translated post into Serbian in my blog. Linked here at the footer.
said on March 27, 2009 12:52 PM PDT:
hi
When I read this post, I thought: "great! all my old hotmail messages, back to life... And I rushed and logged into hotmail (haven't done that in a lot of time... All I found was Spam... nothing more... just countless Spam.. All my old messages were of course deleted by M$...
Which kind of answers why I ACTUALLY DON'T NEED TO GRAB ANYTHING FROM HOTMAIL, EVER AGAIN... THIS PLACE LOOKS,BEHAVES AND FEELS LIKE A CEMETARY...
alex
J.W. said on March 27, 2009 2:00 PM PDT:
Cool trick, thanks.
Dan said on March 27, 2009 2:28 PM PDT:
Excellent! Done it to my Yahoo! too
macbeach said on March 27, 2009 2:43 PM PDT:
Wow, it's about time.
I really have no use for anything but Gmail these days. But I do keep both hotmail and yahoo ids around just in case they are ever needed (or do something truly original). It's good to see Microsoft finally opening it up, even if it is only a crack. I wonder what get into them?
said on March 27, 2009 2:55 PM PDT:
Mine tries every 3 minutes automatically but hotmail says it needs to wait 15 minutes before it can be accessed. Will I have to delete and start over again?
said on March 27, 2009 3:05 PM PDT:
man but i have been doing this for over a month, lol but nice anyway
Benji said on March 27, 2009 3:09 PM PDT:
Weird, I still get this message:
Server denied POP3 access for the given username and password.
Please contact Microsoft's support team for more information on POP access.
louist said on March 27, 2009 8:57 PM PDT:
Benji,
Try adding @hotmail.com (or @live.com or whatever) to the username you're using, if not already. That was the problem I was facing before I amended it.
JV said on March 27, 2009 10:46 PM PDT:
Thanks, I needed that badly. However it seems to fetch from the Inbox only. If mails are moved to folders, they required to be moved to Inbox!
said on March 28, 2009 2:15 AM PDT:
thanks, wonderful tool
said on March 28, 2009 10:21 AM PDT:
When did Hotmail start offering POP? Absolutely brilliant. IMAP goodness here finally :D
Hunnter said on March 28, 2009 3:34 PM PDT:
I'm glad they re-enabled this, it got so annoying i stopped using Hotmail.
Blogger said on March 28, 2009 3:51 PM PDT:
thankyou very much :)
Benji said on March 29, 2009 4:25 PM PDT:
louist, Thank you that was part of my problem. I also needed "Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server" checked for it to work, for some reason.
Don't you have to log in to Hotmail about once a month to keep your address still?
No, you have to log in every 270 days to keep your address.
Cool, Thanks Alex. I thought it was every 30 days. Don't want to loose my Hotmail address as yet, but about time I got round to getting everything redirected though Gmail.
said on April 6, 2009 11:20 AM PDT:
Google sucks
said on April 7, 2009 6:43 AM PDT:
not working for me (with/without @ hotmail.com appended)
This is great! I hate hotmail and was surfing the net looking for a solution and here it is. Excelsior to you!
said on April 13, 2009 3:10 AM PDT:
Hi people I tried to do this but
I'm getting
Server denied POP3 access for the given username and password. Please contact Microsoft's support team for more information on POP access.
Any ideas?
said on April 13, 2009 5:57 PM PDT:
Couldn't add my account using the default server and port it used didn't work, but pop3.live.com:995 from article's screen shot seems to do the trick. It's still trying to retrieve my mail, so will see.
said on April 13, 2009 6:03 PM PDT:
It only imported stuff directly in inbox, not the sub folders, but good non the less.
Great!!!
I haven't been able to check my hotmail for over a week. April 15th. Unable to login for some reason? Microsoft system problems with windows live login. No surprise. Gmail was able to retrieve all my hotmail so now who cares about Microsoft right? =)
Is it possible to import Yahoo mail or does that still not support POP?
Archit said on May 12, 2009 2:48 AM PDT:
yes...this wz the precise method..
i cud add my yahoo id,but hotmail..had some issues...
the port mail.hotmail.com is inncorrect.
used the port filled by the dude..
thanks a ton..
J's said on May 19, 2009 1:13 PM PDT:
Is there a way to get it to import Ymail.com (part of yahoo)
I get these errors:
Could not validate this combination of email address and password.
Gmail couldn't identify your POP server
i don't know what port settings either.
i know i can't down load pop 3 from yahoo via pop mail.app and now this won't do it for ymail either ... sigh
any help would greatly be appreciated. thanks
Yahoo Mail doesn't support POP3 (unless you use the paid version or an international domain).
Similarly with rediffmail too?
I could transfer yahoo with great ease, but rediffmail server baffling me!
said on June 20, 2009 6:56 AM PDT:
Sent items from hotmail aren't imported.
How do I import sent items?
Better to keep both - haven't been able to get into my gmail account for a couple days.... maybe between the 2 I can actually get my e-mails when I travel....
this is really good but it doesn't import the mails you sorted in folders in you hotmail account. Does anybody knows how you can do this?
