Suppose you have multiple accounts and you want to merge your mails together then Gmail provides us most handy tool. This tool is also useful if you are switching from other mail providers such as Hotmail, yahoo, rediffmail to Gmail. Old Emails and contacts can be imported with ease. Later on we can create filter in other email providers to forward emails to your Gmail address.

This tool doesn’t work for other Gmail accounts. Use mail fetcher to get mail from another Gmail account instead.

Gmail Allow you to Import Your Old Mails and Contacts from Other Mail Providers :

To get started, follow the steps below. We must have access to other email -

  1. Click the gear icon in the top right-hand corner of your Gmail inbox.
  2. Click on Mail
    Settings.
  3. Under Accounts and Import tab, click the Import mail and contacts link.


  4. Process of Importing contact will gets started. It may take some time to complete depending on size of mailbox to be imported.
  5. We can check status of your import by going back to the the Accounts and Import tab on the Settings page.


    In short this tool is best recommended for the subscribers those who want to switch to Gmail .