GEEK FREE
14 September 2015
By Joe Callison
(Archived)
Sometimes it becomes necessary to switch from one email account to another, or maybe you would just like to be able to get your email messages from one or more accounts while using a different account. Most of the popular email services have the ability to fetch messages from other accounts. Some email services have the ability to forward emails to other accounts.
The best place to start looking for how to manage your email account is through the help features provided by your email service, or you can do an internet search on a specific topic for that email service. I put together a list of several internet links found by searching the topics of switching email services, moving email from one account to another, and checking email from other accounts. There are many more links that can be found on these topics.
If you have to switch email services, such as after changing internet service providers, you can often continue receiving emails sent to your old email address using your new email service, but you will not be able to reply or send new messages using your old email address. Before you make the switch, check these tips on switching email services to make the process as painless as possible.
Switching email services:
http://www.howtogeek.com/122790/how-to-switch-webmail-providers-without-losing-all-your-email/
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-change-your-email-address-without-screwing-every-1481486947
You may want to transfer or move all of your email messages from one active account to another. Here are some links on doing that for some of the most popular email services.
Move email from other accounts to Comcast.net account:
https://comcast.transfermyemail.com/start
Move email from other accounts to Gmail account:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/56283?hl=en
Move email from other accounts to Outlook.com account:
http://www.cnet.com/how-to/move-your-mail-to-outlook-com/
Move email from Gmail account to Yahoo account:
http://smallbusiness.chron.com/move-emails-gmail-yahoo-account-43110.html
Many of the email services can act as email clients, that is, they can be used as general purpose email programs to get and display email from most any active email account. Here are some links on doing that using some of the most popular email services.
Check other email accounts using Gmail account:
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en
Check other email accounts using Outlook.com account:
http://www.howtogeek.com/122695/how-to-combine-all-your-email-addresses-into-one-outlook.com-inbox/
Check other email accounts using Yahoo account:
http://email.about.com/od/yahoomailtip1/qt/How_to_Check_Other_Email_Accounts_with_Yahoo_Mail.htm
Check email from other accounts in Windows Mail:
