Forwarding Yahoo account to Gmail account?

[Jschmuck2]

So as you may or may not know, Yahoo charges $20/yr for email forwarding, a charge I'm not terribly interested in paying.

Does anyone currently have their Yahoo mail forwarded to Gmail a different way?

 

[Ksyder]

nah I ran into the same problem

 

[frostedflakes]

AFAIK there's no alternative. Email forwarding is something that would have to be done on Yahoo's end.

If you want to forward your Gmail to Yahoo, they support free forwarding.

 

[OCGuy]

Does gmail get you more e-poon or something?

 

[funkymatt]

you can get a program to do this, although it's against yahoo's free email account policy.

 

[Ksyder]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Does gmail get you more e-poon or something?

IMO the yahoo spam filter is a joke, whereas the gmail spam filter is great. that alone makes it worthwhile.

 

[OCGuy]

Originally posted by: Ksyder

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Does gmail get you more e-poon or something?

IMO the yahoo spam filter is a joke, whereas the gmail spam filter is great. that alone makes it worthwhile.

How am I supposed to know if a great uncle in Africa dies and leaves me 5,000,000USD? Or where I can get V1@gRA CH3AP!!1111meds!!!!! ?

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: Ksyder

Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Does gmail get you more e-poon or something?

IMO the yahoo spam filter is a joke, whereas the gmail spam filter is great. that alone makes it worthwhile.

There was an article in the local fishwrap talking about spam filters threatening free speech :laugh:


http://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/wo/story/1058651.html

 

[timswim78]

http://www.e-eeasy.com/MigrateYahooToGmail.aspx

 

[abaez]

How about hotmail to gmail?

 

[soydios]

http://www.poppeeper.com/
I recently transferred all my Excite.com email to GMail. First, use that program to download all the email from the webmail client. Then I wrote my own Java program to split the database file up into .EML files, which are readable by Windows Mail. Windows Mail has IMAP access, which is how you get the messages to GMail.
If you need more help with this, or want the Java code I wrote, shoot me a PM.

 

[rh71]

this stuff reminds me of the year or two I put all my emails through mailwasher to try and curb spam. Fat chance in hell that actually did something.

Gmail's filters are great. Yahoo is worse than Hotmail... both very much behind Gmail.

 

[LS21]

another reason why gmail > ymail. free email forwarding