Title: How Can You Transfer Your SBCGlobal Account To The Google Gmail Account?
1Sbcglobal Net Email Settings call _at_
1-855-856 -2653
2Who We Are?
- SBC stands for Southwestern Bell Company. It is a
free webmail service given to SBC or ATT
customers. When you try to search SBC global, you
are directed to yahoo mail. It seems hard to
understand the connection between SBC global,
ATT and Yahoo, but it is very simple. SBC
purchased ATT for 16 million in 2005 and
adopted its name and brand. ATT and yahoo merged
in 2003. - SBCGlobal is among the most prominent webmail
services that are currently used by the
professionals. SBCGlobal provides you with an
opportunity to open it anywhere, anytime. You can
even configure your SBCGlobal webmail on your
iPhone and iPad.
3How Can You Transfer Your SBCGlobal Account To
The Google Gmail Account?
- This utility comes into the mind when there is
need of transfer of account from old SBCGlobal
mail to the Gmail account. - All those email account holders, who have created
an account before 11th June, 2011 will have to
transfer to Gmail account
4Process Of transfer
- If they have created after this date then there
is no option of transfer as there are no POP 3
servers and SMTP for providing access to the
emails. This protocol is mandatory for direct
transfer. - The process of transfer is discussed below.
Follow the steps properly and in same manner. The
points explained are easy to understand keeping
in mind the importance of topic.
5The points explained are easy to understand
keeping in mind the importance of topic.
- First sign into the Gmail account from the chrome
browser then click on the gear icon followed by
settings option. - Look for the POP3 mail option and add a new
account of your own. Click on the check box. - Under the account option, enter the SBCGlobal net
mail address and then click on the next option.
Enter the password in the next column. - The pop server field will be opened on next
screen where you will be prompted to enter
inbound.att.net and port number 995 in
related field. - Check the box for tick mark the option that says
leave the copy of retrieved message on server.
This option will help you in saving the mails
that you have received on Gmail account.
6Further Process of transfer
- Use SSL option to retrieve the messages. Tick
mark on this option to enable it. - Now the next step is to select the label
incoming messages. This will enable your Gmail
account to receive message from you SBCGlobal net
login. You can read the messages from different
folders after selecting this option. - And if you want to bar the messages from
SBCGlobal mail on your Gmail account than you can
do this easily by clicking on archive incoming
message. You will no longer receive messages on
Gmail account. - Click on the add account option to add a new
account in Gmail account. This process may take
time. It depends in the number of mails you have
in your SBCGlobal inbox. Sit relax and wait for a
while.
7Crucial tips
- If you have created a SBCGlobal account after the
11 June and is going to expire soon then it would
be better to merge your mail with Mozilla
thunderbird or with Microsoft outlook. There are
IMAP protocols in-built. - You will not able to access mails through Gmail
then. You can either download the email onto a
client or add SBCGlobal account using IMAP
server. Under server name option add
imap.mail.yahoo.com as server name.
8warnings
- The POP3 settings are applicable on all the
SBCGlobal net email settings that ends with
SBCGlobal.net, packbell.net, att.net, swbell.net,
snet.net, Ameritech.net and prodigy.net. All
these are valid for pop3 option. - This is all about the process of transferring
mails from SBCGlobal to Gmail. This uses www
SBCGlobal net as an interpreter. - If you still find an issue or problem related to
transfer or merging of mail from one to another
then you can take support from the experts
available on SBC global mail website
9Contact Us
- Sbcglobal Net Email Settings call _at_
1-855-856 -2653 - http//www.sbcgloballogin.com