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Summary: With a little work, it is possible to transfer Hotmail contacts into another account such as Outlook Express.
Transferring Hotmail contact information turns out to be slightly difficult, and certainly not obvious. While Hotmail allows you to import contacts, there doesn't appear to be any way to export them. That's where we need to get clever. • If you can, the easiest approach is to make use of Outlook Express. If you have a premium (read: paid) Hotmail account, then you can use Outlook Express to access Hotmail accounts. Unfortunately you can no longer use Outlook Express for free Hotmail accounts. What a lot of people don't know is that you can use it to download your Hotmail contacts into your Outlook Express address book. This about.com article, Import Contacts and Email Addresses from Hotmail, gives instructions on doing exactly that. Once you've got the contacts in Outlook Express, you can then export to a ".csv" file. (Instructions also covered in, or pointed to, by the aforementioned about.com article.) The "gotcha" here is that contacts which have been organized into groups or sub folders within contacts may not export properly. You'll need to place them at the "top level" within the contacts folder. And finally, you log into your new or different Hotmail account, and import the CSV file into its contacts. "While Hotmail provides for importing contacts, there
doesn't appear to be any way to export them."
Another approach is to use MSN Instant Messenger as your contact management tool. Messenger contacts appear in the Hotmail address book for the same account (though not all Hotmail contacts will appear in Messenger - only those whom you've added to your Messenger contacts). Messenger includes both import and export functions for the contact list. Just log in to Messenger using one account, hit the Contacts menu, Save Contact List and save to a file. Then login to Messenger with a different account, hit Contacts, Import Contacts from a Saved File, load up the file, and you're done. Both approaches have drawbacks, but with a little patience the task can be accomplished. And, as with most things, there are probably other approaches as well. Related:
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First, it's unlikely you HAD to do any of those things. What probably happened
is that your old email address was with your old ISP ... meaning that if you
change ISPs you need to change your email address.
The idea behind HotMail, or GMail or any of the free email services is that
they are not related to your ISP. They're just web sites that you can visit
using any ISP. I suspect someone suggested that as one solution to your problem
so that you would have to change your email address only this one time.
Outlook Express is not required. Hotmail can be accessed via the Web at
hotmail.com. Gmail at gmail.com. Yahoo mail at mail.yahoo.com. And so on.
Simply create an email account at one of those free web mail services and
you're on your way.
It's likely that your NEW ISP has assigned you a new email address already.
You'll need to check with them. You could choose to use that - or not. That
will likely require an email program like Outlook Express (or Windows Live
Mail, or Thunderbird, or Outlook, or Eudora, or any of a hundred others) to
download your email to your machine without using web-based email.
Basically you have many, many choices, and the majority are totally free. It
all depends on what specifically you want to do.
Leo
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Hello,
I have tried to do an export from the contact as the option is now available but it doesn't work, any idea?
Posted by: Dominique at October 25, 2007 1:32 PMInternet cannot dopwnload the file...
The internet site is unavailable or not found..
It seems that it si the same link as the email only the page.aspx change so what's the deal there?
Thanks
Hello there.
I am wondering about how I can transfer my maill from hotmail to gmail. When I fill out the pop setting in gmail under "Accounts", "Add another maill account" it just shows error. I've checked out izymail but seems scetchy. Can you please advice me on how to "defeat" hotmail on this one!?:)
Posted by: Henrik at February 12, 2008 4:06 PMThank you!!
Leo, i just created a new GMail Google account, that I am signing Windows Live with it now, is it possible to export my contats list from my old Windows Live address to this new gmail account?
Posted by: rebakan at February 19, 2008 4:09 PM(sorry for my bad English, you can edit it if it's necessarty) Thanks a lot!
u can if u click screen shot and shhot em all
Posted by: hhggjjhgfhjuyghj at March 20, 2008 2:02 PMHow does one transfer contacts from my yahoo mail to hotmail account
Posted by: Ranjit at May 27, 2008 12:09 AMI would like to transfer my contacts from MSN to G-mail, but the instructions provided are not clear and I do not know how to do it. Hope u can explain. Thanks
Posted by: deranged psychopath at May 27, 2008 4:33 AMjust wanted to say this was very useful help. thanks
Posted by: Andrew at June 11, 2008 12:03 AMhow do i combine my hotmail account to my gmail account and what are the correct setting for it and also i do i access the combined addresses from outlook 2003?
Posted by: jeffrey at October 17, 2008 2:07 PMmy hotmail was stolen or hacked i want the contacts in it they are so important to me
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Posted by: mahmoud at November 30, 2008 6:59 AM