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Shifting mail base is what we call a pain in the bum. With my GMail inbox now touching over the 5 gigs mark, I cannot even think of moving to any other mail provider. And that’s why I can exactly understand why my best friends wouldn’t get shifted from Yahoo or Hotmail or even Indian providers like Rediff and Indiatimes. But as I had mentioned in an earlier post – innovation is thy name, GMail. A new feature has been rolled out which allows users to import not only contacts, but even older mails as well.
So, GMail can now migrate email and contacts from a lot of email service providers and the list is pretty damn exhaustive. The big names are definitely featured -Yahoo, Hotmail/Live, AOL and also some familiar names in the US and UK such as Comcast and Sprint. (See the full list here).
In the official GMail blog post, it has been mentioned that businesses and schools using Google Apps however, will not be able to use this feature. Another functionality added is to try and test GMail for a period of 30 days, by importing just your new email to GMail (after which I believe you never would want to go back). Depending on the size of the inbox, importing would take 24-48 hours.
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Gmail is absolutely awesome. I shifted to it way back in 2003 or something. The one thing I really like about it is how they keep innovating and stay way ahead of the curve. Providers like hotmail, yahoo, rediff etc. just try to play catch up! All the apps, the integration, and the apps for mobile phones are pretty cool too.
And like you said, configuring other mail has never been easier.