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As the author points out, years of gmail archives create a very high switching cost for moving to another email provider. Not to mention the fact that setting u
by macrael 16y ago
As the author points out, years of gmail archives create a very high switching cost for moving to another email provider. Not to mention the fact that setting up an infinite email forward is an imperfect solution to the problem. It would be nice (pie in the sky, here) if there were a way to easily transfer your email account, address and all, between two different providers, sort of like how you can do so with your phone number.
- msmith 16y agoGmail gives you a way to transfer your archived mail from Hotmail, Yahoo, and most of the other big providers. I imagine Hotmail could do the same, if they don't already.
- thesethings 16y agoGmail lets you use IMAP, which is as nice of an email transfer option as one could hope for in 2010. (http://www.dataliberation.org/google/gmail http://www.dataliberation.org/google/gmail) You can even export your filters. - The article doesn't mention if the new Hotmail will support IMAP. The current one makes you have some strange "Windows Live" client as far as I know. In this way I don't see it as Gmail imposing the switching cost (one could move away to lots of other providers or self-hosting).