Switching email addresses but keeping my emails

[magicroundabout]

is there an easy way of changin over to say Gmail and moving all my emails with me?

btyahoo who i have been using for years have now said i need to pay £1.47pm to use the pay as you go email service!!!! WTF

so can i create a new address and move emails over?

[flammableBen]

You could set up your new gmail account, then go through your old emails and forward the important ones to yourself.

Dunno if there's an easier way.

[Batch]

How did you access you btyahoo thingamegig. If through something like outlook express then

http://email.about.com/od/gmailtips/qt/et011906.htm

If it is 100% web based no idea!

[magicroundabout]

you know i honestly didn't think of that!!!!

will take me a while but i suppose it's the easiest way. Just got a shit load of stuff to move etc

[magicroundabout]

through yahoo. it's a @btinternet.com address which i had when i was using there internet but switched to sky 3 years ago and carried on with the email address. then today they send an email telling me if i wish to carry on using it i have to start paying!!!!!!

[jonny72]

Use Outlook Express or something similar to download all your emails to your PC and then delete them from the old mail account. Create your Gmail account and add that to Outlook Express. Then move all the old emails in to the Gmail inbox in Outlook Express and it should upload them all and keep it in sync.

Gmail is an IMAP email system, which basically means all your emails are stored on their server and then your email software (such as Outlook Express) keeps itself in sync with it. Send an email, move an email from one folder to another or whatever on Gmail or Outlook Express and the other will update accordingly.