The transfer will happen online and you just need to specify the credentials (user name & password) of your old email account (from where you want to move message out) and your new email address (where you want to move messages in). This illustration will help you visualize how to transfer email messages across the three most popular web email services. Moving Emails from One Account to Another Your ISP’s email service isn’t reliable and you therefore plan to move to a free web based email service like Gmail, Yahoo or Outlook.You are quitting your existing job and need to transfer all personal emails from the Microsoft Exchange server to your email account.Your existing email address gets too much spam so you plan to dump the old account and switch to a new email address.

There can be several reasons why you may want to switch email service providers.