Comments on: How to move or transfer email accounts from one ISP to another

By: Thomas Skouros

Thomas Skouros — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:12:49 +0000

How can I transfer Folders,address books, and other stored info to my new Lenovo Q150 ideacentre?

By: Phil B

Phil B — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 23:44:50 +0000

I used the service and only 5 of my 50 contacts trasferred

By: Eileen

Eileen — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 00:00:09 +0000

I cant get True Switch to work. I tried numerous times trying to go from Juno.com to Comcast.net.

Get message running but nothing every happens each time.

Rebooted, reloaded program, Comcast could not help either.

Don’t know how to get help directly for my problem

Help!

By: Ramblin Rose

Ramblin Rose — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:59:57 +0000

TrueSwitch wanted to charge a fee to transfer from verizon.net to yahoo.com. “Free” my foot!!

By: Kay

Kay — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:47:38 +0000

After my disaster with “TrueSwitch” (previous post–and still waiting for the refund) I was able to easily transfer all my files using YippieMove. Fast, efficient–and instead of an idiot screen that says only, “No Messages,” you get real time reports and graphs showing you right how things are going.

By: Kay

Kay — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:46:47 +0000

TrueSwitch was a disaster, transferring half my files and then stopping. Nothing worked after that and I was left in limbo. You have to wait days and days for responses from their Customer Service, which has no clue what to do. I’m still waiting for a refund and looking for another service.

By: Allen

Allen — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:30:51 +0000

TrueSwitch is a joke. Because of them, I now have one account with half of my emails. When your write their “Customer Support,” they promise a reply in 1.5 days. You will hear from them in five. And then they answer you with a form letter with grammar errors asking you useless questions–then you wait a couple of more days while nothing happens.

Then they close your account.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 15:02:17 +0000

can i transfer my netzero.com email address book over to charter email?

By: Anders Vinther

Anders Vinther — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:24:38 +0000

As an alternative you can use IMAP to transfer your email from one account to another.

This can also be used to merge email from two or more email clients (which can be on the same or different computers).

If you are currently using a web mail provider create a Gmail account and use the Import feature to pull all your old email into Gmail.

If you have your old email locally on a computer follow these steps:

- create a Gmail account and enable IMAP
- create a new IMAP account on your old email client (e.g.) Thunderbird) to connect to your new Gmail account
- copy your locally stored email to the IMAP account
- on your new computer create a similar IMAP account on your new email client (e.g. Outlook or Apple Mail).

Now you can copy your old emails from the IMAP account to your local folders (POP) on the new computer – or stay with the IMAP solution with the benefits that gives you (automatically synchronizing email on multiple computers, accessing your email from Gmail when you’re away from your computer etc). With the second option you would copy the emails from your new computer to the IMAP account to have all emails in one account.

If you do not wish to use Gmail you can use another IMAP capable email account or simply delete your Gmail account once the transfer is complete.

I have written an article on how to transfer email using IMAP here: Easy-Email.net/transfer-email

I hope this helps.

Cheers,

Anders

Disclosure: I run the http://www.Easy-Email.net web site. All the information required to get this to work is free to download.

By: Taylor

Taylor — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:37:19 +0000

Ok this didn’t work! I had a ton of contacts and now I don’t have any in the new email client! What did I do wrong? How can I transfer all the contacts between my email accounts? Thanks.

By: Ed T.

Ed T. — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:54:18 +0000

Our Comcast E-mails suddenly were tranferred into Outlook Express. How do we get them back into Comcast E-mails?

By: Indybrett

Indybrett — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 16:12:04 +0000

Trueswitch is joke. If you can use it for free, fine. If you have to pay for it, save your money.

I tried using it to migrate from one well known provider to another well known provider. Out of 40,000 emails, about 2000 copied. I then got the message that it had complete, and thanks for my business. Tried again with a different provider, same result. Emailed Trueswitch and got one response saying sorry. After that… crickets.

By: Joe Breen

Joe Breen — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:16:36 +0000

I would like to quit doing business with Surfbest and have all my email transferred automatically to either my AOL, Yahoo or Google address. Is it possible, where someone writes to surfbest I will receive it at the newly selected account ? Will all my contacts/sources be notified? What would be the timing on cancelling the surfbest service. Your help is appreciated. Thank you.

Joe

By: BigD

BigD — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:44:41 +0000

True Switch is a joke – don’t look for any help from their support desk – they have failed to respond to any email message that I have sent to them and there is no published phone number to contact them either. Email folders did not transfer and emails continue to be sent to old email address instead of being forwarded as advertised. Do yourself a favor – Look somewhere else for help with this process.

By: mark verrell

mark verrell — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 05:55:20 +0000

i sure would like to know how to trasfer the entire contents of email folders at once, anyone know how to do this?