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Do you have an old Hotmail email account that everybody know and send emails to, and you created another email account on other place, and you would like to drag your old and/or new emails from your Hotmail account?

I faced this problem, I don’t want to cancel my Hotmail account and also I don’t want to check my new emails on Hotmail.com, what I did first I tried to check the Hotmail options -> more options menu

To see if there is any feature that allow me to forward the new emails to another account, and Yes I found a “Forward mail to another e-mail account” feature

I was happy, but when I clicked on the link and opened the “Forwarding” page a “Where do you want your messages to be sent?” field there to add the email address were you want your Hotmail emails to be sent, unfortunately, this feature doesn’t allow you to forward your Hotmail emails to any other email address unless its a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com, so no Gmail, Yahoo or any other email clients, I tried to put my @bourini.com email as I thought this is what they mean by “a custom domain” but i was wrong or they are, it didn’t work as they stated.

You’re disappointed? don’t be… continue to find the solution:

So I started to look else were to find another solution to transfer or to forward my old and new Hotmail emails to another email address, and happily Gmail (Google) shine.

You can create a free email address on www.Gmail.com and transfer all your Hotmail emails to your Gmail account,  also Gmail allows you to send emails through the Hotmail email account as youname@Hotmail.com, another good feature is that Gmail allows you to forward any emails comes to your Gmail account to any other email address (another Gmail account, Hotmail, Yahoo or a custom domain) without any restrictions as the Hotmail do.

Of course you can use any pop3 clients such as (Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express… etc., if you’re interested to know how to setup this feature within MS Outlook or Outlook Express just send me a comment here and I will explain it through steps to you).

As for the Gmail, and after you created a new account on it, do the following:

-          Step 1:  Go to Settings -> Accounts and Import

-          Step 2: in the “Check mail using POP3:” box click on the “Add POP3 email account”.

-          Step 3: a new “Add a mail account you own” window will appear, in the “Email address” field insert your Hotmail email account, then click on the “Next Step >>” button.

-          Step4: then insert your password in the “Password” field (your Hotmail account password)

-          Step 5: leave the “POP Server” and the “Port” as is, as for the other 4 check box options, it will depend on your needs, as an explanation check the following:

• Leave a copy of retrieved message on the server: this to keep a copy of the email that’s been retrieved in the Hotmail account.
• Always use a secure connection (SSL) when retrieving mail: If the email account being retrieved from supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, you can select this option to have all information sent through a secured connection.
• Label incoming messages: this is to organize your emails, consider it like a folder, which will labeled all your incoming Hotmail emails with the label you select… you can create a custom name label by open the list box and select “New label” option, then enter the label name…
• Archive incoming messages (Skip the Inbox): this will archive emails and will not be seen in the inbox (to see them you have to check in “All Mail” label or if assigned a label to it, they will be under that label), I prefer to use this feature with labels

-          Step 6: click on “Add Account >>” button, a massage indicating that your account has been created will appear, now another feature you can setup from her is the ability to send emails from your Hotmail account email through Gmail account, if you don’t want to proceed close the window or click on the “No” radio button and click on “Finish” button which will close the window, this is it and you’re done. Otherwise keep the” Yes, I want to be able to send mail as youname@hotmail.com” radio button checked and click on “Next Step >>” button to proceed.

-          Step 7: after you clicked on “Next Step >>” button, you’re free to insert your name as it will appear in “From” when you send an email through yourname@Hotmail.com Account also you can specify an optional different “reply-to” address“, after you finish clicked on “Next Step >>” button.

-           Step 8: this will allow you to determine wither you want to send emails as youname@hotmail.com through Gmail mail or Hotmail.com SMTP, select “Send through Gmail Mail” as its easier to set up, and click on “Next Step >>” button.

-          Step 9: You’re finished, just for security issues and to make sure that this is your Hotmail email address, Gmail will send you a verification email, click on “Send Verification” button, an email will be sent to your Hotmail account, open that email and get the verification code and place it in the “Enter and verify the confirmation code” field that will appear.

* Please note that you have to “sign in” in your Hotmail account at least once every 270 days so that your account doesn’t get deleted.

* For any further assistant just send comments and I will do my best to answer you as soon as I can, through updating this post or creating another post.

Best regards

Mahdi Bourini

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