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Rob12772

I decided to switch from Yahoo Mail to GMail, but there is one problem and I need your help.

You see, I subscribed to many newsletters so I can receive new deals from different stores that sell Steam games, receive update blogs from games people are developing, receive emails from bundle sites like Humble and Bundle Stars who send me great deals on bundles and games on discounted prices and so on.

The problem rises is that I want to delete my Yahoo Mail account, but how do I receive all these emails on my GMail account instead of Yahoo?

I know that there is a thing called "Email Forwarding" where it sends emails from one account to another, but I read somewhere that if you delete an account, you won't receive forwarded email.

So, what do I do? Do I have to ask every single site I subscribed to change the email or there is a simpler way to do it?

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t0b3berlin

Either forward the mails towards your Gmail-Account or do it manually by subscribing with your new email address. There is no other way.

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Rob12772

Ok, I did the email forwarding thing. But is it true that if I delete my Yahoo account, I won't receive anymore emails from Yahoo to GMail?

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Targunitoth

Yes. account has to still exist

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Rob12772

I see. Thanks.

8 years ago
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jenoer
  • Set auto-forward on for Yahoo > Gmail
  • Set an auto-reply on Yahoo account that says something similar to "This e-mailaddress has been replaced with {name}@gmail.com and will become invalid in 3 months"
  • Every e-mail you receive through Yahoo:

    If it's personal, notify them if they keep sending mails to your Yahoo, they should have gotten the autoreply.
    If it's account-based / newsletters, log in to the service and change your e-mail address

This proces will take you a while, but this way you: Spam people your new e-mail address, slowly migrate to your new e-mail address, filter out all the newsletters and services you didn't want before.

8 years ago
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zeroxxx

no auto forward, Yahoo has disabled it.

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jenoer

Seriously? My guess is this is to prevent situations like this happening, what else could the reason be..
Yahoo is dying, now with the NSA backboor news lately, Yahoo is done.

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zeroxxx

The timing is too coincidental with the recent scandal, so probably it's just a way to keep users from leaving. It's just my guess, though.

Auto forward has been a basic email service since more than decade ago, there's no excuse to disable it to 'improve' it a.k.a Yahoo reasoning why they disabled it.

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RachelGamer

Have you been hacked or something?
Why change at all?

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Rob12772

I just decided to switch from Yahoo to GMail.

Yahoo has been bought out and currently all email accounts on Yahoo have been compromised, so it's safer for me to switch rather than sticking to an email service that's going to die soon.

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Loupou22

and you think that gmail is not scanned by the NSA ?

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Rob12772

Well I don't know, you tell me.

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khayolin

:)
You cant escape so easly to the big ears ,)

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zeroxxx

There's no way to auto forward your emails, Yahoo has disabled it.

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Rob12772

I'm looking at my GMail right now and it has forwarded my emails. Even the recent ones.

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d3m4n

gmail does, but you are wanting to change from yahoo, to gmail.. not from gmail to yahoo.. gmail having said feature is pointless ;)

the only thing i can think of is like spacefall said.. using popchecker to have gmail pull your messages from your old yahoo account.. it would still require the yahoo account to stay and not be deleted, but it should work similarly to a forwarder (except in this case your yahoo will still be stacking messages that appear unread, and eventually even get full at which point you will have to manually remove your yahoo messages to make room for more)

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Rob12772

I'll try using popchecker. Thanks for the advice!

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Rob12772

Ok, just used the popchecker. Works fine! It pulled new emails into my GMail.

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Avantyr

You can re-sub to the newsletters with the new email or just use both and keep the yahoo for spam.

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spacefall

Is it possible to add Yahoo to your Gmail inbox as a POP3 or IMAP account, or does Yahoo prevent that? I can't check as I'm no longer a Yahoo mail user, but worth a try. I notice the POP3 article mentions the lack of email forwarding (it also mentions that if you formerly used forwarding, you won't be able to use POP)

POP https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4724.html
IMAP https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN4075.html

Gmail instructions for adding external mail accounts https://support.google.com/mail/answer/21289?hl=en

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Rob12772

It is possible. GMail just forwarded my Yahoo emails. Even the recent ones.

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spacefall

Oh, sorry though this no longer worked. Good to know that it does, thanks!

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Rob12772

I'll try using popchecker. Thanks for the advice!

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Rob12772

Ok, just used the popchecker. Works fine! It pulled new emails into my GMail.

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Loupou22

there all much of a muchness with regards to service and security :)

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d3m4n

wha? "much of a muchness" lol

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Loupou22

http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/13823/how-did-the-phrase-much-of-a-muchness-come-to-be

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d3m4n

ahhhh.. okay, ty.. never heard that one before ^^
i gets massive smarterness everyday heres xD

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Loupou22

:oP

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Rob12772

One last thing.

Once old emails have been forwarded to GMail, they stay until I decide to delete them regardless if my Yahoo account is deleted or not?

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Closed 8 years ago by Rob12772.