While Gmail dominates the consumer email landscape, Outlook dominates the business and enterprise segment. Other email providers like Yahoo, AOL, and iCloud are minor players in comparison. Frequent ads, unnecessary news add-ons, and a lack of innovative features have degraded the Yahoo experience. If you're moving from Yahoo to Gmail but don't want to abandon your existing emails, import your Yahoo emails to Gmail.
Gmail supports importing emails and contacts from all Popular email providers like Outlook Yahoo, AOL, and iCloud. The service creates a dedicated Yahoo folder and imports all incoming emails into it. You no longer need to use Yahoo's cumbersome email apps on the web and mobile. Let's see it in action.
Import emails from Yahoo to Gmail
You need to use Gmail Web to import your Yahoo inbox. You can't do the same thing from the Gmail mobile apps. Follow these steps.
Step 1: Visit gmail On the web and sign in with your Google Account details.
Step 2: Click on the gear Settings In the upper right corner and open All settings.
Step 3: Locate Accounts and import At the top. Click on "Import from another address."
Step 4: do itLogin To your Yahoo email address.
Step 5: Click tracking.
Step 6: Select an account Yahoo Your.
Step 7: Enter Password from the following list.
Step 8: Give Permissions Necessary to allow the service to read your Yahoo profile, contacts, and email. Your authentication has been successful. Close the current window.
Step 9: A new window opens and gives you Import options Related. You can import emails and contacts and continue importing new emails for 30 days.
We recommend importing your emails within the next 30 days as well. This gives you enough time to let your contacts, clients, employees, and customers know about your new Gmail address. Click Start Import.
It may take several hours (sometimes up to 48 hours) to start seeing your imported messages in Gmail. You can close the tab and even the browser. Gmail continues the transfer process in the background.
For Yahoo contacts, you need to visit the web version of Google Contacts to verify the imported contacts.
The above trick only moves messages, not folders or labels, from your Yahoo account. You need to organize them from scratch.
Manage Yahoo emails in Gmail
After the Yahoo email import process is complete, Gmail creates a custom label to distinguish between All imported emailsYou can expand the list of categories from the sidebar and check your inbox.
You may need to sign up for a Google One plan or read our dedicated post. To free up Drive space.
How to download emails from Yahoo
You can also save your Yahoo emails offline. If you want to download confidential Yahoo emails to an external drive, follow the steps below.
Step 1: Open gmail Select your Yahoo email address from the sidebar.
Step 2: Select the email you want to download. Click Menu The three points.
Step 3: Locate Download the message.
Stop receiving new Yahoo emails in Gmail
Gmail imports your Yahoo emails for 30 days. However, if you no longer want to receive new Yahoo emails in your Gmail inbox, use the steps below to stop this behavior.
Step 1: Go to Gmail settings On the web (see steps above).
Step 2: Go to Finance And import.
Step 3: Click turning off Next to your Yahoo email address.
Gmail removes your Yahoo email address from the same list. However, the system doesn't delete existing imported emails. It simply stops syncing to receive new emails from Yahoo.
Don't leave your emails on Yahoo!
While switching from Yahoo to Gmail is a step in the right direction, you shouldn't leave your relevant Yahoo emails behind. Unfortunately, you can't move specific emails from Yahoo to Gmail. The trick is to move all your Yahoo emails and contacts to Gmail.
