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I've decided to migrate over to Gmail, so of course I would like to migrate my old Yahoo emails and forward Yahoo mail to Gmail for a few months until the transition is complete.

Unfortunately, things aren't going smoothly. I first tried the Gmail import facility. It seemed to work and all my email got imported, but then new emails weren't getting transferred (perhaps it only happens periodically, but I would like it to happen faster than once a day). I then tried to resolve the problem by making Gmail get email from Yahoo POP3 (Yahoo Mail Plus has POP3). That worked as far as getting the new emails, but it didn't stop with the new emails and started to also grab old emails and I ended up with duplicate emails in Yahoo.

Finally, I blew away all the imported Yahoo mail in my Gmail and tried to start with a "clean slate" with import (yes, I first deleted the import email address and POP3 stuff).

Now, my import has been going on for a day and only a month's worth of emails are imported. It seems to have stalled. Google says that import may take days, I don't mind that, but they should indicate if it is going to be a trickle or occur in batches.

Here's my questions (I've already tried Gmail forums and they are useless, just clueless users bantering about problems with no resolutions):

  • Should I forget about the Gmail import facility and just setup Gmail to use my Yahoo POP3 server?

  • Is import really only useful if you're importing from a service that does not have POP3?

  • I've heard an unsubstantiated rumor about Yahoo blocking or throttling Gmail import. It certainly is plausible.

    Is there any truth to this?

  • Are there better ways to perform this importing operation?

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See this Google article : "Migrate to Gmail from Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, AOL Mail".
This describes utilities that Google had developed for fetching mail and contacts.

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Setting up to use the POP3 is the best way to do it my eyes.

I did it with my old Yahoo account and works fine, copies over old and new emails, so 2 birds with one stone.

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  • Yes, I think you're right. I turned off the import process and set up Gmail to use yahoo's pop3 server. emails are now trickling in. When complete, I will turn off the Gmail pop3 connection to yahoo and set up Yahoo mail forwarding so that new emails get to Gmail with less latency.
    – Angelo
    Commented Sep 23, 2009 at 12:56
  • Yep exactly the way i did it,
    – admintech
    Commented Sep 23, 2009 at 13:41