How to Forward Incoming Yahoo Emails to Gmail Free without Mail Plus ?

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How to Forward Incoming Yahoo Emails to Gmail Free without Mail Plus Recently, a reader Alex Martin asked "hi.i hav an account on yahoo.i wanna make a new on gmail.tel me is it possible to get all mails of yahoo on gmail and how ?". Of Course Its Possible..but the main problem was mail forwarding feature was not available to free yahoo accounts. But here is a work around to forward your incoming yahoo mail to your Gmail account.

Free POP & Email forwarding on Yahoo Mail – Settings

Sign in to you yahoo mail.
Then click on your name beside the Yahoo Mail logo to reveal the drop down menu.
Choose “Edit My Account”.
You will then be asked to verify you account, Just key in again your password.
Next, edit your yahoo information. Click the Edit link beside the “Member Information” Line.
Change the preferred content to YAHOO ASIA.
Then click Finished.
Accept the Terms of Service (TOS) for yahoo Asia.
After this, you will be brought back to your email homepage. You should see the YAHOO Asia logo on the top left of your screen.

We can now enable POP access and Email Forwarding.

Forwarding your Yahoo Mails to Gmail

Look for Options to the upper-right.
Click on it and choose "Mail Options" from the drop-down.
Click "POP & Forwarding" from the menu on the left.
Click the link that comes up to the right ("Set up or edit POP & Forwarding ")
Click the Forwarding radio button and enter your Gmail address.
Click the Save button to the lower left.

Done, Now you emails your get at Yahoo will be forwarded to your Gmail Account.

Transferring your Contacts from Yahoo to Gmail

Open your Gmail account. Go to Settings.
Click on the "Accounts and Import" Tab. Enter the passwords for your Yahoo! mail account.
Select the import options you want to use. You can decide to import all your contacts, and old mail, or some portion of thereof.

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AS :

How to keep the yahoo’s copy of email intact after auto-forwarding?

Debajyoti Das :

@ AS – There is option to delete the mail or not or only forward a copy to your gmail

AS :

OK, I need to check it. Long time ago when I last open yahoo mail, no such option was there.

shrinivas :

good work dude !!!!!! it works ………………THANX

Rahul :

There is NO FORWARDING OR POP option !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Debajyoti Das :

@ Rahul – It won’t be there for Free Yahoo Users. But See the Post about changing your Yahoo to Yahoo Asia

AS :

No option to save mails in yahoo still in my yahoo India account.

Debajyoti Das :

@ AS – You need to configure to make it Yahoo Asia… See the Post

Tina :

No option to change member information to “ASIA”. Kindly check.

Debajyoti Das :

@ tina .. I tried myself .. It works… Plz Kindly check

Achal Dave :

I.. LOVE.. YOU for this!
You don’t know HOW MANY HOURS I HAVE SPENT trying to get yahoo to work with my outlook and other things. I know I should have paid the $10 but I was mad at yahoo for doing that, and was determined not to pay it to them.
Thanks so much.
Even my dad has been wanting to use this feature…

THANKS.

Monitor_R :

It seems that the solution with Yahoo Asia is not working any more for new accounts.
I started a new email account on Yahoo US, moved it to Yahoo Asia as described (different web look compared to the post) and POP&Forwarding option is not appearing…

Any ideas?

Chandru :

My account is 5 years old.. but still i cant find pop and mail forward option after changing preferred content to Yahoo India.. any suggestions

Debajyoti Das :

@ Chandru – You have to set the Preferred domain to yahoo asia .. to work.
PS: Sometimes the domains are set based on the origin of your Ip address … You may have to route it through another one

Satya Thakur :

Well I can just saw is ‘Thanks’

I had been working on this since last year and finally found a solution on this site !!

Thanks a million brother

Debajyoti Das :

I am happy … that the post helped you ….
Welcome to Snaphow.com

neo :

does your email end in yahoo.co.in?
I think it wont work for people whose email ends in yahoo.com

Debajyoti Das :

This is a working Trick…. this will work for yahoo.com as well …. Make sure you do the Asia Settings Properly

Luke :

This worked great! I’ve had my Yahoo email account for 5 years and it worked fine! The only problem was that a lot of the links and buttons have been renamed, so finding the option for Yahoo Asia is a little different:

My Account >> Account Info >> Set Language, Site, And Time Zone >> Yahoo! Asia

Wilson :

Wow. This is great! Thanks for the share.

I am helping my mommy switch over from Yahoo!mail which she had used for over 10 years. Her Yahoo! mail has just been so littered with spam and I finally convinced her to switch because I found gmail so much easier to use and good at blocking the random, unsolicited spam. It was disappointing to find that Yahoo! disabled forwarding to discourage email switching but this seems to do the trick. Huzzah!

Debajyoti Das :

I am glad this guide helped…