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| Oct 19, 2011 at 12:41 | comment | added | Rabarberski | @Dave: Wow, indeed. I tested this on an existing account (from 2006) and a new hotmail account, and both allowed forwarding to non microsoft domains!! Great! (this is the first time I found out about it, I don't see it advertised anywhere) | |
| Oct 19, 2011 at 10:45 | comment | added | David Webb | @Rabarberski - They must have since we're doing this with a free account. As far as I can tell "Hotmail Plus" now gets you no ads, more storage and means you don't have to keep logging in to keep the account active. If you're forwarding all your mail this last option might be worth the money but YMMV. | |
| Oct 19, 2011 at 8:05 | comment | added | Rabarberski | @Dave: Interesting. It used to be that hotmail only allowed forwarding to some email addresses with hotmail/live/msn domains. Paying removed this restriction, allowing other domains (like gmail). Has this changed? | |
| Oct 18, 2011 at 17:50 | comment | added | David Webb | @Rabarberski - Forwarding to Hotmail is free as I currently have my wife's email configured in exactly this way. The thing to remember though is that you need to login into your Hotmail account once every 6 months to stop it being deactivated as an idle account. | |
| Aug 1, 2011 at 8:21 | comment | added | Rabarberski | As far as I know forwarding from hotmail to gmail is not free. | |
| Apr 25, 2011 at 18:54 | comment | added | bmike♦ | I'll +1 this as well. No one will know you are using gmail or IMAP to send/receive hotmail. You don't have to lose that account - just the restrictions in using each message with a server that doesn't sync. When most people realize that the from field still shows hotmail, replies still go to hotmail, and their messages from hotmail get tagged/organized in gmail they make the jump. I don't care if my neighbor drops my mail off at the post office - as long as it doesn't delay my mail and isn't hard to set up or understand - passing POP through IMAP is very feasable to allow true syncing. | |
| Apr 25, 2011 at 8:45 | comment | added | robzolkos | This is by far the best way to go. Sure, a bit of pain importing in your old folders, but it is possible. I'd setup a gmail account first and create all your rules/filters/labels. Then I'd go into your hotmail, move all your email from the folders back into your inbox and mark them all as unread. Then let gmail import them all into gmail. It will do all the filtering/labelling based on your rules. Once you've done this, configure gmail in Mail.app and your iPhone. You can even configure gmail to send email with your hotmail email address. A little pain but a lot of gain. | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 16:33 | comment | added | pathikrit | Thought about it but it does not really work as my Hotmail account has many folders and my emails get filtered into them automatically and Gmail does not do a great job of importing those folders (it only imports the inbox) | |
| Mar 26, 2011 at 9:54 | history | answered | gesher | CC BY-SA 2.5 |