Transfer contacts from Gmail, Hotmail, Facebook to Yahoo! Mail

The most worrisome thing when switching to other webmail is that it is impossible to bring the list of contact email from the old mailbox. This is also why Yahoo! Mail adds features to import contacts from your Gmail account, Windows Live Hotmail or Facebook .

After logging in to your Yahoo! New mail created, click on the link Get started under New line ! Import Contacts from other accounts to Yahoo! in What's new card to exploit this new feature.

At the Contacts tab, click on the Facebook, Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail icons for the account you want to import contacts into Yahoo! Mail. Here I choose Gmail .

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Select the account you want to import contacts into Yahoo!Mail

In the Step 1 - Select Source window , open the Gmail address and password to enter the Email Address and Password boxes under the Gmail / GoogleMail section .

If you want to import more contacts from your Windows Live Hotmail, AOL or Orkut account, check the Hotmail / Windows Live / MSN, AOL or Orkut options, then enter the corresponding account login and password into Two Email Address and Password boxes below.

Similarly, you tick the Another Yahoo! Contact if you want to import more contacts from your Yahoo! My previous mail, then fill in the two boxes below.

The option A desktop email program (Outlook, AppleMail) allows you to import contacts of the email account installed in the mail client (such as Outlook) based on the csv or vcf file (click the Browse button and select this file).

Under the More Services field are seven other services that you can choose to import contacts into Yahoo! Mail, including: Aim.com, Comcast, EarthLink, Freenet.de, Laposte, Verizon, Web.de.

Select it, check the I give Yahoo! permission to send . below then click the Continue button to start the process of receiving contacts from accounts you want to import into Yahoo! Mail.

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Declare account login information to import contacts

When the Step 2 window - Select Contacts to Import appears , all contact email addresses received from other accounts are pre-selected to wait for import into Yahoo! Mail. Of course, you can uncheck the email addresses you don't want to import, and then click the Import button to do so.

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Select the email address you want to import

Go to the Step 3 - Notify window, you can tell your friends about your Yahoo! My new mail by checking the email address of the person who wants to notify or tick the Select all box to select all, then edit the content of the message sent under Subject: I have a new Yahoo! email address (or keep the pre-set content), then click the Finish button to finish.

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Notify friends of Yahoo!My new mail.

Note : In testing, importing contacts from Gmail accounts is sometimes not possible .

- The above list import feature is not present in Yahoo! Mail Classic version.