How to migrate your Gmail account to Outlook.com following these simple steps

Today from Xataka Windows we bring you a very interesting post, thanks to which you can rest easy performing a complete migration of your emailfrom a Gmail account to the Microsoft Outlook platform.com.

Without a doubt, Microsoft once again offers us a wide variety of quality services associated with Outlook.com, among which They include, in addition to the email service, a cloud drive, a synchronized calendar and many more interesting ones. If you currently had an email account on Google servers, here we explain how to make the change without losing data.

Services provided by Outlook.com

Outlook.com not only offers us an inbox no capacity limitbut it also provides another series of interesting services such as OneDrive (space in the cloud) to store everything we need on the network, Calendar service and different applications to create online documents such as Word, Excel or even PowerPoint, being able to access them from anywhere at any time

It is also worth highlighting the Microsoft Contacts service, with which we can link our new email [email protected] or mymail@outlook .es to our accounts on different social networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

To carry out a full migration from Gmail to Outlook.com, in this tutorial we will learn to copy all the emails that we currently have in our Gmail inbox to our new mail in Outlook.com and redirect our old Gmail account to our new email account in Outlook.com.

Import emails from Gmail to Outlook.com

The steps we must take to import the emails we currently have in our Gmail account to our new Outlook.com account are the following:

1. First, we authenticate ourselves on the Outlook.com website by entering our username and password. If we still do not have an account, we must go to the lower right area of ​​the web and click on the phrase Register now.

   

2. Click with the left mouse button on the icon of the wheel, located in the upper right area and click on the option Options

   

3. Once inside our email options, we go to the left column that is titled Manage your account and press with the left mouse button on the option Import email accounts

   

4. We will see several options to import accounts from different services, in this particular case we select Google

   

5. A central text will appear indicating that we must connect to our Gmail account in order to import the mail.We can also link our Outlook.com account in such a way that we can send emails from Outlook.com with the Gmail email address. Click on the button Start to start the migration.

   

6. Once authenticated, we accept the permissions for Microsoft.

   

7. Before showing us the import process, it allows us to configure forwarding from the Gmail account, so that all the emails that were sent to us to our previous Gmail account, we receive them in our Outlook.com mailbox.

   

8. Finally, in the upper right area we can see the % of imported emails.

   

Setting up email forwarding from Gmail to Outlook.com

1. Click on the email we have received in our Gmail account from Microsoft with the subject “Automatically forward from Gmail to Outlook.com”

   

2. Within this email, click on the link we have in the second step, clicking on the text “here”.

   

3. If we had not received the email, we can go to the same screen by clicking on the wheel icon, in the upper right area, and clicking on “Settings” and then on the tab “Forwarding and POP/IMAP Mail”

   

   

4. Click on “Add a forwarding address” and enter the address of our new mail in the box Outlook.com. Press “Next” and “Continue”

   

   

5. We will get a message indicating that a confirmation email has been sent to our account in Outlook.com, so we go to our inbox, verify that we have said email (if it is not in the inbox, we check "Spam").

   

6. We access the email received and click on the link that we have been sent.

   

And with these simple steps, we will have our Gmail account fully migrated to the platform Outlook.com completely, making sure we receive the emails that are still sent to Gmail, in the new Outlook.com account.

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