News: Easily switch to Gmail by importing your other e-mail accounts into Gmail

Gmail has just rolled out a new migration feature that allows users of other email services to transfer their email messages and contacts from these accounts into their Gmail account.  This should be interesting to many people.

From the Official Gmail Blog:

Gmail now migrates email and contacts from other email providers, including Yahoo!, Hotmail, AOL, and many more.  It's much easier to make the transition now that you can bring along all your old email and contacts. You can even have your messages forwarded from your old account for 30 days, giving you time to take Gmail for a test drive while you make up your mind.

This new feature is available in all newly-created Gmail accounts, and it is slowly being rolled out to all existing accounts. It'll take longer than the few hours or days that most Gmail features take to get out to everyone. You'll know it's on for your account when you see the Accounts and Import tab (formerly just called Accounts) under Settings. Sorry, businesses and schools using Google Apps won't see these new migration options.

Yann, thanks for sharing this. It is terrific news--when I moved email from a personal domain over to Gmail my only complaint was there was no good way to migrate over my contacts and past emails over. Needless to say, I will be looking for the "Accounts and Imports" tab!

Best,

Megan