Pack Your Bags
June 27th, 2007
(17 votes, average: 4.06 out of 5)
Loading ...Coming to Yahoo! Mail for the first time? Multiple email accounts dragging you down? Too many contacts in too many places? Have no fear, Trueswitch is here!
We want to make it easy to take all of your contacts and transfer them directly into your Yahoo! Contacts list. And it’s not just limited to your contacts, either. You can choose to transfer calendar items and emails from other email accounts. And did I mention it’s easy?!
Don’t believe me, then just take a look at this video (click here for a full screen version)…
Told you so. Check it out for yourself
For all of you that can’t stop whistling that tune from the video… that’s “Maybe Tomorrow” by Terry Bush the theme song from the TV series “The Littlest Hobo“
Entry Filed under: addressbook, contacts, move, organise
40 Comments Add your own
1. DAJ | June 27th, 2007 at 11:42 am
Nice as this is, I can’t see that many people really need it — most people who have multiple emails do so through choice. This little service is clearly designed to help new sign ups to Yahoo Mail migrate.
I love Yahoo and have been using it for years (and pay for the premium service too). I would have much preferred to see the calendar updated as it is still in the old style; what about finishing the Mail Options screens — some are in the new style, some in the old. Notepad too! The built in chat is a nice to have, but it is a shame it only works with other Y! messenger users; odd since messenger now allows you to chat to MSN users.
If I had to vote for one change it would be to bring the calendar into this century
Keep up the good work
2. DAJ | June 27th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Oh, integration with Flickr too! I would love to be able to save pictures I receive in email directly into my Flickr account
3. susanrad10 | July 13th, 2007 at 11:03 am
i love my yahoo and my messenger every since i got this new com i cannot get onto my messenger for yahoo.co.uk
4. Thilak | August 21st, 2007 at 5:13 am
Awesome! I wish you guys had this feature some three years back!
5. Sankaranand | August 21st, 2007 at 2:13 pm
Would be nice if true switch allows other domains of yahoo like .co.in since as far now it only allows .com and .co.uk
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Hi Sankaranand,
Thanks for the suggestion. We’ll look into that for future iterations of the Trueswitch service. And just an FYI - it also works for Germany with @yahoo.de (http://trueswitch.com/yahoo-de) and France with @yahoo.fr (https://secure5.trueswitch.com/yahoo-fr/)
Cheers,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Beta Team
6. helen | September 11th, 2007 at 8:54 pm
what about transferring from …@virgin.net
It doesn’t have virgin on the drop down list.
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Hi Helen,
Thanks for your comment. Unfortunately, at this time, virgin.net email addresses are not supported at this time. I will make a request to have emails from virgin.net added to the drop down list.
Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Beta Team
7. James Clover | September 12th, 2007 at 1:27 pm
No transfer from btopenworld.com to yahoo.com for contacts??
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Hi James,
Thanks for your comment. I’ll put a request in to add btopenworld.com to the pick-list of possible transfers. I can’t promise anything, but we’ll do our best to accomodate request for switching domains.
Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Beta Team
8. Dudders | September 14th, 2007 at 7:25 am
It would be great if it could also take emails from your Outlook inbox and dump them back into the Yahoo! email Inbox - for those times when one sets up POP Access and accidentally has the tick box active for “delete messages from server” once the email has been downloaded into Outlook (or any other POP email application)…
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Doh!! I’ve done that myself. The only way around that is if you have a mail plus subscription - and depending on how many messages - I usually just re-send them to myself from Outlook.
Sorry,
Andrew
9. Julia | September 17th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Unfortunatley BTinternet or Talk talk isn’t on there either !
10. Paul | September 17th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
What a great service. Is there any possibility of including ireland.com on the list?
11. sue | September 18th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Hi
This is great, but can you add onetel.com to your expanding pick list?? Other wise fab since you sorted out the hotmail probs..
12. Agbaye | September 19th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I did not believe that this was possible.
But I was pleasantly shocked to know that all my contacts and much more were tranferred. This made my life alot easier.
Thanks to the inovator
13. simon potts | September 19th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Very good that you can tannfer your emails to one.
14. JOSEPH RICE | September 19th, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Thought i would give it a try.
15. jim milburn | September 20th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
I have tried several times to transfer al my addresses from btyahoo.com to my email address at yahoo , but no joy too many adverts in the way ,Help
Regards
Jim Milburn
16. colinsmith | September 21st, 2007 at 11:06 am
I have been trying all morning to transfer all my emails onto yahoo what is wrong.
Tearing my hair out thanks c.smith
17. Ashes Khan | September 22nd, 2007 at 5:56 am
Wow dats gr8… i m using more than 1 email IDs n i beleive its only 4 me ..
….
Thanx Yahooo!
18. Charity | September 22nd, 2007 at 6:18 pm
How does this cope with folders other than the Inbox? e.g. the sent box and personalised user folders? I’d like to transfer my info from an “@yahoo.com” account to an “@yahoo.co.uk account - would all my folders transfer, or would all the email from my ‘com’ account appear in one folder after the transfer?
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Hi Charity,
Your personal folders in your old mail account should be transfered over to your Yahoo! Mail Account. For example your inbox comes over as a folder called inbox. If you have a folder created called “Family” that will come over as a different folder.
Hope that helps,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team
19. ROD | September 24th, 2007 at 8:25 am
I pressed start transfer button-nothing happened.
20. Alfred Nkile | September 26th, 2007 at 7:09 am
It’s great to be on yahoo
21. jan | September 26th, 2007 at 10:04 am
MY email address is ??????@yahoo.com.
OTHERS email address is ?????@yahoo.co.uk
It would be useful for me to be a ?????@yahoo.co.uk. Can you do that??
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Hi Jan,
If I understand correctly, you want your userID at the @.com address to become a @.co.uk. Unfortunately I’m unable to provide a solution to that. You can certainly transfer your emails and stuff from yourusername@yahoo.com to yourotherusername@yahoo.co.uk.
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team
22. aldenis | September 26th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
it is very cool
23. irene | September 28th, 2007 at 7:44 pm
it really cool.nice try
24. robin bennett | September 29th, 2007 at 11:21 am
nice one
25. louanne pieters | September 29th, 2007 at 11:36 am
Yes i think it’s great.
26. Simon | September 30th, 2007 at 9:43 pm
I have a talktalk.net E-Mail address but don’t seem to be able to transfer over onto my new yahoo add
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Hi Simon,
Talktalk has not yet been added to the list quite yet. We’re always looking to add more. Perhaps in the future we’ll be able to add talktalk to the list.
Thanks
Andrew - Yahoo Mail Team
27. Jev Foster | October 1st, 2007 at 6:46 am
Can you please tell me that can I able to make the first or third letter of my yahoo ID capital.
Ex: If my ID is like- x.xxxx@yahoo.co.uk
I want to make this like:
X.Xxxx@yahoo.co.uk
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Jev Foster
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Hi Jev,
If you want, you can receive mail as X.Xxxx@yahoo.co.uk . You’re Yahoo email account will still receive mails regardles of the case.
Thanks,
Andrew
28. Fred Saro-Wiwa | October 1st, 2007 at 10:08 am
Absolutely, i like easy of getting into my mail. i need to get more contact into my contact list, this will enable me have a contact with many people all over the world. Cool.
29. KEVIN HODKIN | October 1st, 2007 at 3:09 pm
BT INTERNET…????
30. paul | October 1st, 2007 at 3:42 pm
cannot transfer bt openworld to my yahoo uk address and i am running out of time.20 days to go before my bt openworld is defunct,and several years of info goes up in smoke,the adverts for your true switch are misleading and your customer response times are awful,sent yahoo email on this subject 3 weeks back,.SO when will you include bt openworld and bt internet in your true switch drop list
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Hi Paul,
Unfortunately, BT Openworld / BT Internet is not included in the list of possible accounts to use this feature. I can offer an alternative solution, while not as easy as the Trueswitch, will achieve the same results.
First you can pop your BT Openworld account into your new Yahoo Mail account. Check out this help page for more details:
http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/pop/pop-03.html
Second you can export your BT Openworld contacts, check with their help pages on how to do that. Then you can import them into your Yahoo Mail Addressbook. To do that click on the “Options” link at the top of your mailbox. Then click on the “Contacts Options” on the left column (that will open a new window). Then find the “Import/Export” link and import your BT Openworld contacts into your yahoo.co.uk account. Check out this help page for assistance on the import function: http://help.yahoo.com/help/uk/ab/impexp/index.html
If you need any help with your @yahoo.co.uk account - please feel free to contact us here: http://help.yahoo.com/l/uk/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/contactus/
Hope that helps.
Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team
31. lachlan murray | October 2nd, 2007 at 7:09 am
looks good
32. Adrian Cook | October 2nd, 2007 at 9:56 am
Yes - I tried the mail transfer. It did it once and has not worked since.
33. IH | October 2nd, 2007 at 11:44 am
I cannot transfer emails from onetel.com.
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Hi there,
I’ll add onetel.com to our list of providers for future development of the tool.
Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team
34. hasmita | October 2nd, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Hi
can you transfer all BT Internet contacts to Yahoo? If so, how is it done please?
Thanks
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Hi Hasmita,
Take a look at a comment from Paul above… I believe that I answered your question. If not - let me know and we’ll see if we can sort you out.
Thanks,
Andrew - Yahoo! Mail Team
35. jerin.t.george | October 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
i think its nice
36. LESLEY MARY WATTERS | October 4th, 2007 at 6:54 am
What about upgrading the drop down and including ALL previous servers ??
37. Sandra Clarke | October 19th, 2007 at 11:57 am
I had a sky.com e-mail address and yahoo does not have this on their drop down list. I would love to be able to transfer my sky.com e-mails to yahoo but how. Any answers please.
38. terence hoare | December 4th, 2007 at 1:57 am
yahoo seems to work consistently on improving service and pleasire to Its guests..
in having all e mails etc in the one Inbox suits me, very much.
Thank you. Happy Chroistmas to your team
39. Steve | March 19th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I changed my email address 2 weeks ago and have tried several times to get my old emails (also a yahoo.co.uk address) to come with me but they will not, I got the contacts and calendar to come over.
Tried the HELP but no-one got back to me.
Guess I’ll just wait.
40. Gabriel Pascoli | June 24th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Hi, I’m from Brazil, and I cannot transfer emails from yahoo.com.br accounts to new ymail.com and / or rocketmail.com accounts.
Please, that will come in handy!
Thanks!
Gabriel
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