Outlook.com is a free web-based email service from Microsoft, which offers numerous simple and effective tools for email management. Users import all the data in other email accounts to Outlook.com using the inbuilt wizard offered by the email service, and manage all the emails collectively. Microsoft earlier restricted the service to only POP3 email account users, but has recently revived the policy to include IMAP email services as well.
Announcing the move in last month’s blog post, Principal Group Program Manager for Outlook.com, Mike Schackwitz said, “After receiving a great response from the customers who imported their email from Gmail to Outlook.com, we’re excited to announce that, as of today, you can use Outlook.com to import and manage your email from Yahoo Mail and many other IMAP-enabled email providers.”
This means that now, IMAP-enabled Yahoo Mail users would also be allowed to setup email in Outlook website, and import their emails and manage them with Microsoft’s email service. Following are the instructions to import the emails from Yahoo email account to Outlook.com.
Steps to follow
The above steps can be followed for importing data from other IMAP-based email services as well. However, be specific to choose the Other email provider option in the Import email accounts page to configure your email account in Outlook.com. Microsoft has not made it clear which of the IMAP-based email providers are supported by Outlook.com though, and has only said that most popular email services will be supported.
Microsoft further highlights that after you setup email in Outlook website, all the importing of data takes place in the background, and thus, you are allowed to continue using the service or even sign out during the process. An email will be sent to your inbox to notify you when the synchronizing is complete.
Outlook.com now supports two of the most widely used email services, and allows users to manage their data collectively. Nevertheless, Microsoft will have to wait and watch if this move works out for its email service and helps it to gain more users.
Announcing the move in last month’s blog post, Principal Group Program Manager for Outlook.com, Mike Schackwitz said, “After receiving a great response from the customers who imported their email from Gmail to Outlook.com, we’re excited to announce that, as of today, you can use Outlook.com to import and manage your email from Yahoo Mail and many other IMAP-enabled email providers.”
This means that now, IMAP-enabled Yahoo Mail users would also be allowed to setup email in Outlook website, and import their emails and manage them with Microsoft’s email service. Following are the instructions to import the emails from Yahoo email account to Outlook.com.
Steps to follow
- Access your Outlook.com account and click on the Options button.
- Select Import email accounts from the resulting menu, and click on the option specified for Yahoo.
- Enter your Yahoo email address and password in the required boxes, and click on the Import button.
The above steps can be followed for importing data from other IMAP-based email services as well. However, be specific to choose the Other email provider option in the Import email accounts page to configure your email account in Outlook.com. Microsoft has not made it clear which of the IMAP-based email providers are supported by Outlook.com though, and has only said that most popular email services will be supported.
Microsoft further highlights that after you setup email in Outlook website, all the importing of data takes place in the background, and thus, you are allowed to continue using the service or even sign out during the process. An email will be sent to your inbox to notify you when the synchronizing is complete.
Outlook.com now supports two of the most widely used email services, and allows users to manage their data collectively. Nevertheless, Microsoft will have to wait and watch if this move works out for its email service and helps it to gain more users.
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