This may include adverts from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. Bosnia-Herzegovina Mr.īotswana Dr.We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you've consented to and to improve our understanding of you. Michael Barbados Tel: 1 Fax: 1 Email: srudderforeign. John's Antigua and Barbuda Tel: 1cell 1 Fax: 1 Email: dcblack11 at gmail. Now you have a backup of all your emails online, and if you get locked out of one mailbox, you can use the other.Skip to main content.įocal Point List. In fact, you can add your Gmail address as a Hotmail alias, and add your Hotmail address as a Gmail alias. Once you have all your emails in Gmail, set the old address to forward incoming emails to your Gmail inbox. It can take a few days or, in my case, more than a week. Google uses an external service called ShuttleCloud to do this. In your new Gmail account, go to Configure Inbox in Settings the cogwheel icon and click the tab for Accounts and Import. The hardest part is finding a usable email address that has not already been taken, though it helps to have an unusual name.

If you want to switch from Hotmail to Gmail, or vice versa, then you have to open a new account. Most importantly, Gmail still paginates emails, which means I can easily skip from the second page of search results to p emails 24, This is useful when you haveor more emails in your inbox. However, Outlook.Īt the moment, I prefer Gmail. I like the fact that you can set up Outlook. Many iterations later, the two services are much closer. This made Gmail faster and more responsive. The main one was that it offered times as much storage: 1GB! Gmail also had much better search and spam blocking, and it worked like an app rather than an HTML web page. In the beginning, Gmail had several significant advantages over Hotmail. This might be handy if you have one you rarely use. Note that you can also add aliases for any of your old email addresses. You can now use the same inbox to send emails from both your old Hotmail and your new Outlook. Create an alias in the form myname outlook. However, if you switched to using a new Outlook. You are, of course, still using a Hotmail address. Microsoft closed that service years ago, and all Hotmail users are using its current service at Outlook. Today, I can at least guarantee that you are not using Hotmail. Add another email account to the Gmail app Unfortunately, neither Hotmail nor Gmail provides that feature free, though to some extent you can fake it with an alias. Ideally, you should use your own domain name for your main address. I now think you should have both services, with one acting as a backup, though you could also back up to Yahoo. I almost switched back inbut both services have changed a lot since then. Is it worth it? All my friends and family use Gmail and I feel like a dinosaur with clunky old Hotmail.

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