How to move or transfer email accounts from one ISP to another

Posted on November 12, 2007 at 1:25 pm

Are you looking for a way to move your email account from Outlook to Yahoo or maybe from AOL to Hotmail? If you’re not familiar with the tech details, it can be quite an arduous task to move from one email ISP account to another, if not impossible. So if you want to transfer your account info, emails, tasks, calendar items, address book and contacts, etc to a new email provider, there’s a cool web service you should check out.

TrueSwitch is a service that allows you to easily switch between email providers by copying all of your data from the old Internet email account to the new one, automatically notifying all contacts of your new email address, and automatically canceling your old account.

TruesSwitch works with many Internet Service Providers, including AOL, AT&T, Comcast, CompuServe, Cox Cable, Earthlink, Hotmail, Juno, MSN, NetZero, RoadRunner, SBC Yahoo!, and Yahoo! It also works with stand-alone programs such as Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and AOL.

Also, if you’re switching to one of their partners, the whole process is completely free. Their partners include Yahoo, AT&T, Verizon and Comcast. If you’re switching to any other service, the fee is about $20, but that’s not too bad if you really want to switch, but have tons of stuff you would not want to lose.

Here are the major features of this service:

Copy - Whether the data is stored on the web site or in your desktop application, TrueSwitch will copy your emails, address book, calendar events, and favorites.
Notify - TrueSwitch can send an email out to everyone on your contact list telling them about the new email address. You can also personalize this email.
Forward - TrueSwitch can check your old email account for 30 days and forward all of your emails to your new account.
Cancel - TrueSwitch can help you cancel your old Internet account, like AOL, etc.

Also, TrueSwitch will copy all attachments that you may have stored in your emails. You can also use TrueSwitch to move your chat data between different IM messengers.

In order to use TrueSwitch, you will need to download and install a client application on to your computer. You enter in the user name and password for both the old account and the new one and follow the instructions in the wizard. A transfer can take anywhere from 30 minutes to 24 hours, depending on the amount of data.

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8 Responses to “How to move or transfer email accounts from one ISP to another”

ram said on : November 13th, 2007 at 9:37 am

This is an interesting and quite useful tool. Nice find
BTW delete the first comment, there is some problem with the comment form

Cheryl Gracia said on : November 20th, 2007 at 11:41 pm

I want to switch my email over to another user name. I’m not really computer literate, but I’m convinced that my ex-boyfriend has downloaded many wizards to allow him to access my computer and change pertinent information. I tried to do a “true switch” a couple of weeks ago and it didn’t allow me to go from Verizon to comcast. Can you suggest the steps to follow so I can access my own “private” sites again… thanks so much!

Cheryl

Judy said on : December 9th, 2007 at 6:21 pm

Only problem with True Switch is I can’t get it work.

I also cannot get anyone at True Switch Customer service to answer my email.

I finally deleted the program from my computer and am doing 400+ emails the old fashioned way.

LEN said on : January 7th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

CAN I USE TRUE SWITCH TO TRANSFER MY AOL ADDRESS BOOK FROM AOL TO OUTLOOK EXPRESS?

Russ Alme said on : January 8th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

I have been trying for 2 days to get someone to help me get from netzero to live.com. No luck!!!

alice said on : March 20th, 2008 at 8:18 am

i cant find roadrunner where i need to transfer to.i can find my old carrier to transfer from,but rr doesnt show up,any suggestions?

akishore said on : March 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

Russ, Alice - You can try calling TrueSwitch customer support and see if they can help you out. If you don’t see the option in the list they may not support that email service.