How to Migrate Yahoo Mail and Contacts Into Gmail (2024)

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When you switch your email service from Yahoo to Gmail, transfer your Yahoomail and contacts to your Gmail account. Once the transfer is complete, send mail from either account at any time. Choose either your Yahoo or Gmail email address when composing messages or replying to existing ones. Or, configure your Yahoo mailbox to forward to the other account.

How to Migrate Yahoo Contacts to Gmail (and Emails, Too)

Log in to your Yahoo account and your Gmail account to prepare to transfer messages and your address book.

1. From your Yahooaccount, move the messages that you want to transfer to Gmail to your Yahoo Inbox. Either drag and drop or select and move emails into the Inbox folder.

   Moveemails to the Inbox folder in Yahoo before you start the migration process. Mail that's in theDrafts, Trash, and Spam folders isn't imported.

2. Go to Gmail and select Settings (the gear icon).

   

3. Select See all settings.

   

4. Select the Accounts and Import tab.

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5. Select Import mail and contacts.

   

6. Enter your Yahoo email address and select Continue.

   

7. Select Continue to accept ShuttleCloud migration manager's terms of use.

   

8. Select your account.

   

9. Enter your password and select Next.

   

10. Select Agree to allow ShuttleCloud Migration to access your Yahoo contacts, profiles, and mail.

    

11. Select your import options and then choose Start Import.

    

12. Select OK to finish. Your account import will begin.

Tips About Importing Yahoo Contacts to Gmail

Here a few things to keep in mind once you authorize the transfer:

• It might take up to two days before you see all the Yahoo mail imported into Gmail, but that depends on how many emails you have in Yahoo.
• Gmail creates a label for messages imported from Yahoo. It's named after the Yahoo address that forwards mail to your Gmail account. You can delete this label if you wish.
• Yahoo contacts and messages are not deleted from your Yahoo account when imported into Gmail. If you want to remove contacts and messages after the migration, log in to your Yahoo account.
• Return to the Accounts and Import tab in the Gmail settings to check the progress of the process.
• Stop importing mail at any time by clicking the Stop link in the Accounts and Imports tab of the Gmail settings.
• With a YahooMail Plus subscription, you can alsohave Gmail download new mail automatically.