Thursday, May 29, 2014

How to move from Gmail to Outlook.com

Set up Gmail email forwarding

From now on you’ll want all email messages that come to your Gmail account to get forwarded to your Outlook.com account. Easy enough:

Step 1

Sign into your Gmail account and click Settings.

































Step 2

Click the Forwarding and POP/IMAP tab, then click Add a forwarding address.




































Step 3

Enter your Outlook.com email address, then click Next. Confirm the address by clicking Proceed.

 













Step 4


Keep that Gmail tab or window open. In another tab or window, open your Outlook.com account and look for an email from Gmail with a verification code.

Step 5

Back in the Gmail tab, type or paste that code into the “confirmation code” field, then click Verify.














Step 6


Enable Forward a copy of incoming mail to [your Outlook.com address], then choose whether to keep, archive, delete, or simply mark-as-read the original Gmail copy of each message.

Step 7

Scroll down to the bottom and click Save Changes.