How To move Earthlink Webmail To Gmail?
How To move Earthlink Webmail To Gmail?
This tutorial tells you how to easily change your Earthlink email address to a personal Gmail account. If you are an EarthLink user and won’t cancel your Earthlink Email service, take these
steps: First, go to your earthlink.net email account and write down the following information:
Your EarthLink Email Address (example@earthlink.net)
Secret Question and Answer Used to Recover Your Password
The name of the primary e-mail contact for your EarthLink account, if you have one
An alternate “work” email address that is forwarded to your EarthLink account
As soon as you have the above information written down, you will want to cancel your earthlink.net email service. To cancel an email, visit the EarthLink How To Cancel Email Tutorial.
Read About the article: Earthlink Webmail
After canceling your Earthlink Webmail service, you will need to do a little more work but not much. First of all, there are a few places that automatic settings may be cached on your system from when you first signed up for your Earthlink account. You want to erase this information.
To find out what your Earthlink Email address is, just go to their How can I view or change my email address? tutorial.
Once you have canceled the email service and you know your new Gmail address, just login into Gmail and create an account with that email address. There is no need to use earthlink.net as the address – just use @gmail.com or whatever e-mail you would like.
When you get your Gmail set up, log into your Earthlink email account one more time and navigate to How do I forward mail?
You will want to change the settings so that all new messages will be forwarded TO gmail.com. Then, in Gmail, you can set up filters to send messages that are sent FROM Earthlink into the trash folder.