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How to Ditch Your Old E-Mail Address and Move to Gmail

howto.wired.com — A useful guide to replacing your old email address with :the real thing. Gmail- a real email 2.0 application.

Who dugg this? Made popular Nov 16, 2008

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  • AngusMustang, on 11/16/2008, -5/+266Wait, Google has internet email?? Next thing you know they're going to be making a browser!
  • d2002, on 11/15/2008, -18/+148Hard to imagine anyone NOT using Gmail.
  • naturalpapa, on 11/15/2008, -13/+127Gmail rules.
  • iJessicaRabbit, on 11/16/2008, -1/+102or a phone, wouldn't that be crazy
  • haydesigner, on 11/16/2008, -2/+56I just discovered their search engine, like, just last week!
  • Murdats, on 11/16/2008, -2/+54what would be really crazy is if they developed a whole online suite of tools like a word processor, spreadsheet app, rss reader, bookmark manager and the like.
  • dobba, on 11/16/2008, -2/+54I like Gmail BUT . . .

    . . . that article sucks. For the non-tech savvy that whole explanation is way above most peoples heads and does nothing to help or explain to anyone how to go about migrating their email. Even some of the tech savvy will look at it and go 'huh?'.

    Wired - if you're going to write something at least do a walk through that explains it a little better or whoever's submitting the story, think a little first. Badly written piece.
  • inactive, on 11/15/2008, -6/+54This came at the right time for me. Just got Gmail last week. Thanks for sharing this.
  • inactive, on 11/16/2008, -1/+44Same here. I didn't even know what it was, I had to googl...

    I suck at this joke. Carry on.
  • DefaultGen, on 11/16/2008, -1/+41An online office suite? What next? Satellite images of the entire earth down to street level!?
  • dnasty27, on 11/16/2008, -5/+45wait, this is basically email 101...
    Why is this on the front page?
  • Folye, on 11/16/2008, -2/+38Too bad the Hotmail information they gave doesn't work. According to Hotmail - "You're only able to forward mail to a custom domain or an e-mail address that ends in hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com." It's too bad, I was hoping to forward that one.
  • PrometheusZero, on 11/16/2008, -2/+33.... google? You mean the number?
  • Rikti, on 11/16/2008, -0/+31Don't follow the advice of getting a new domain and forwarding from each account to a different address. That's worthless. GMail itself allows you to set those filters: forward your AOL stuff to youraddress+aol@gmail.com, Hotmail stuff to youraddress+hotmail@gmail.com, and so on -- it will all arrive to youraddress@gmail.com, but keep the +tag part for easy filtering. The author of this article ignored an existing GMail feature and 'reinvented' it.
  • PabloMac, on 11/16/2008, -1/+32Pics or it didn't happen.
  • ScottoGato, on 11/16/2008, -13/+37***** webmail fanboys.
  • mrcaulfield, on 11/15/2008, -7/+27google dominates all.
  • inactive, on 11/15/2008, -6/+26Gmails Rocks B-)
  • TMTurtle, on 11/16/2008, -4/+24Christ this is old.
  • dan0964, on 11/16/2008, -0/+19You mean googol....
  • soondot, on 11/16/2008, -2/+20One problem. Hotmail doesn't forward. Buried as inaccurate.
  • inactive, on 11/16/2008, -7/+25You do realize that what you said makes no sense, right?

    Gmail has the same market share as yahoo...in search?
  • jobobshishkabob, on 11/16/2008, -0/+17"Because digg doesn't really capture the tech crowd."
    Ah... I remember when digg used to be a tech website. Good times...
  • picpak, on 11/16/2008, -0/+17We still appreciate your effort.
  • youannoyme, on 11/16/2008, -2/+16Just curious...when have you ever seen a google commercial? The closest thing to advertising I've ever seen to overt marketing were the google shirt and such that people started wearing long after the phenomenon began. Everything else I've seen was pretty much word of mouth and being useful enough I stuck with it.
  • marcoionox, on 11/16/2008, -1/+14You can't forward with Hotmail (Only to @msn, @hotmail and @live addresses - Microsoft bastards).
  • Stevo23, on 11/16/2008, -9/+21Hard to imagine anyone valuing their privacy/data security.
  • antonio97b, on 11/16/2008, -1/+13Because digg doesn't really capture the tech crowd. Digg users are too busy with politics, xkcd and cracked.com lists.

    or lists about anything really.
  • Zeroxysm, on 11/16/2008, -0/+12I was just going to ask about this exact same thing.

    I'd like to forward e-mail from my Hotmail Live account, but can't figure out how.

    It says the same thing you said.
  • inajeep, on 11/16/2008, -1/+12Ah the syrupy flavor of sarcasm drips like honey from these comments. Sticky.
  • masterkenobi, on 11/16/2008, -2/+13I actually prefer labels over folders.
  • zimsters, on 11/16/2008, -1/+10wow, this is somewhat complicated. those who don't have gmail right now tend to be the people not "with it" technologically. you expect them to WANT to switch if you're talking vacation responders, bulk forwarding, getting your own domain, paying for email hosting etc?

    buried for ***** article that complicated a damn easy task. and since when does hotmail forward your emails, that's the biggest issue with a number of non techie friends of mine who still have hotmail - they can't forward for free.
  • mecharabbit, on 11/16/2008, -0/+9cyber-leather and cyber-whips?
  • pablo0713, on 11/16/2008, -6/+15Gmail: No Spam in my inbox.

    Yahoo: Flooded with Spam both inbox and spam box.

    Nuff said.
  • UberNick, on 11/16/2008, -1/+9Thank you for sharing.
  • cmallinson, on 11/16/2008, -3/+11Why on earth would you use all three? Isn't it better to pick whichever you like best?
  • identityxcrysis, on 11/16/2008, -5/+13It does make sense.

    Gmail's market share is equivalent to the market share that Yahoo holds in search.


    As in, gmailsMarketShare = yahoosSearchShare;

    Anyway, point is, he's just stating that gmail isn't the most popular email service out there, so it shouldn't be hard to imagine. And just to further back up the point, I use hotmail. No like gmail. And I know a decent amount of people who use hotmail too, and such.

    MSN Messengerrrr
  • Akairenn, on 11/16/2008, -2/+10*sigh*

    Gmail is to Email as Yahoo! is to Search.

    Reading comprehension fail!
  • TunaFishGangsta, on 11/16/2008, -1/+9I love Gmail, I've got a couple accounts(one professional, one personal) and my own domain. Everything is managed from one account. It's awesome.

    Still, I keep my hotmail address because of all the accounts I'm signed up to across the web. You see, I signed up for hotmail about 10 years ago, no *****. In that time I've registered for upwards of a few thousand sites, and I never use the same password twice. Even though I no longer receive mail at that address, I still use it to retrieve passwords. All the mail in the account automatically goes to the spam folder. I'd like to get rid of it, but it comes in handy when I forget my password somewhere. Additionally, hotmail will reregister your old account to someone else after 90 days and that is a security concern.
  • DefaultGen, on 11/16/2008, -3/+11Are you 15?
  • duckduckgoose1, on 11/16/2008, -3/+10Hard to imagine anyone wanting to sort their emails........... good luck doing this in Gmail.
  • PabloMac, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9period
  • hotpuck6, on 11/16/2008, -0/+7agreed, that was obvious for anyone that knew that was going on in that article, yet too complex for anyone that that article could have actually helped.
  • garreh, on 11/16/2008, -3/+10Would you like to expand on that?..
  • rolf, on 11/16/2008, -2/+9Me too. Not so much for myself (had Gmail long time) but my parents who are stuck on their yahoo account with its spam, crappy interface (opening pictures) and what not. It's really had too little going for it the last few years.

    Would be nice to use the new gmail video chat feature with them from time to time rather than expensive calls (on their end).
  • identityxcrysis, on 11/16/2008, -1/+7I was with you until you said Apple.
  • iignotus, on 11/16/2008, -2/+8Thanks for the comment. I still dugg you down
  • DeathfireD, on 11/16/2008, -0/+5You can set gmail to archive your e-mail into each label thus making it a "folder". As new mail comes in, it will be pushed into the correct label (folder) and you can then just click on the label to see all the new messages for that label (folder). It works exactly like outlook.
  • PabloMac, on 11/16/2008, -1/+6Especially with the new Video Chat.
  • 0260, on 11/16/2008, -2/+7on Gmail for over 4 years now. 1GB of space was so exciting.
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