How to Forward Email From Hotmail to Yahoo!

Email forwarding is similar to registering a physical change of address.

Your free email addresses can accumulate quickly over the years. You might start out with just one, then create a second solely for use with websites with high spam potential, then make a third when another provider offers a unique feature. Before you know it, you're overrun with email accounts -- and each is the point of contact for different sets of friends. Rather than delete an old Hotmail account and lose the relationships and contacts collected within, you can just forward any incoming email for your Hotmail account over to your Yahoo! inbox.

Instructions

1. Log into your Windows Live Hotmail account.

2. Click "Options," then "More Options" just below your name in the top-right corner of the page. Hotmail's expanded options appear on-screen.

3. Click "Email Forwarding" in the "Managing Your Account" section in the main pane. The Hotmail forwarding options appear.

4. Click the radio button next to "Forward your mail to the following email account" and type your Yahoo! email address into the field below. Check the box next to "Keep a copy of forwarded messages in your Windows Live Hotmail inbox" if desired.

5. Click "Save."

6. Log into your Yahoo! Mail account at mail.yahoo.com to view your forwarded Hotmail messages.

Tips & Warnings

• Hotmail deactivates your account if you don't log in to the website at least once every 270 days.

References

• Windows Live Unplugged; Windows Live Hotmail -- Email Forwarding; Winston Natoli; December 2010