Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

kefyn — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:11:50 GMT

Great walk through of the process.

TrueSwitch does not work with Live accounts that are not @outlook.com, @hotmail.com or @live.com. I have used my personal email address as my live account, so TrueSwitch does not work. I tried logging in with the associated outlook.com email, but this is not a user id so does not work.

I am sure that there will be many out there with this problem.

I had to use the POP mail option shown here howto.cnet.com/.../move-your-mail-to-outlook.com

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

Anunay — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 23:05:12 GMT

The only thing stopping me from moving to outlook.com is the string "on behalf " being added while sending emails as a different account.

In addition to POP3, can we please add support for SMTP and avoid this From address change while sending an email?

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

Daniel Morris — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:03:06 GMT

Rather than forwarding my gmail email I want to access it with POP3. This was not working and I suspected it had to do with two-factor authentication (which I use on gmail). Then I found out that you need to create an application-specific password in order for outlook.com to access my gmail. Once I did this, I could access my gmail account using POP3.

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

winthetaxgame — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:06:54 GMT

I have and email account that I want to keep however the domain expired. It is annoying as every few seconds it is asking for a password. How to make this dormant as I need these emails?

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

Sergey Romanov — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:07:53 GMT

Kidding?

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

Sergey Romanov — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 12:06:52 GMT

IMAP? Why? Look there is POP with download messages to your client and there is IMAP with allow to work with your mail through other applications. But since outlook.com in itself is an aplication it is like IMAP. Why you need IMAP for?

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

philipstratford — Tue, 23 Oct 2012 11:15:06 GMT

I would like to switch from Gmail to Outlook.com, but I have come to rely on the ability to assign multiple labels to emails, and so reverting back to only being able to file an email in one folder would be a retrograde step for me.

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

Enrique Munoz — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:02:59 GMT

Get modern email without giving up your Gmail account...yeah...outlook.com so modern still don´t have IMAP...a lot of modern...

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

brandongiesing — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 05:13:23 GMT

Umm... Quick question about the the Outlook preview...

I was using Google Apps Free Edition so I could get a professional looking email address for myself. I wanted to switch to Outlook; however, the only way you can add a domain to an Outlook email address is via Office365 and I don't have the money cause I am only a 15 year old.

So I tried adding it as a send from address which is working well but I would like to log-in with it...

Also I tried using the TrueSwitch tool, but it didn't work cause (again), I have a custom domain name...

Can somebody please help me?

re: Upgrade from Gmail to Outlook.com in 5 easy steps

K776QSEED — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 02:11:54 GMT

I added my Google's contacts but their secondary email isn't displayed by outlook.com. It's a big loss, if you ask me. There is something that I can to do about this?