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How to transfer your Outlook emails to Proton Mail
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Published onJuly 24, 2022
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Privacy is under siegein the data economy. Left on their own, the big tech companies of Silicon Valley harvest your data in exchange for their “free” services.
The tide has slowly begun to shift, however, with many services now offering privacy as their selling point. One such service isProton Mail, which offers perhaps the most secure and privacy-oriented webmail available to personal and enterprise users.
If you’ve been a long-time Outlook user but are now looking to switch to Proton Mail, you’re at the right place. Before you do that, however, you’d naturally want to take all your essential data with you. In what follows, we’ll lay down the exact step-by-step process to transfer your Outlook emails to Proton Mail.
How to transfer your Outlook emails to Proton Mail
Moving your Outlook emails to Proton Mail is a relatively simple process. In fact you can even carry a bunch of other files apart from emails as well. For instance, you can take all your important Outlook files—including attachments, contacts, etc.—directly to Proton Mail.
In this piece, though, we’ll only stick with Outlook emails for now. So let’s get started.
Moving Outlook emails to Proton Mail
You can transfer your Outlook emails to Proton Mail with the help of Easy Switch, a free tool to help you move your emails across different email service providers.
To launch Easy Switch, head to your Proton Mail account and sign into it. Then head to theSettingsmenu, selectGo to settings > Import via Easy Switch, and click on theOutlookicon.
You’ll get a dialog box asking you what you want to import. From there, selectEmailsand click onContinue.
You’ll then get a few instructions about the things you’ll have to do on your Outlook account; follow them. Basically, all you need to do is head to the Outlook settings, enable the two-step verification, and generate the App password.
To create an app password, click onCreate a new passwordapp, note down the password somewhere safe (preferably offline) that you get on the next screen, and click onDone. You’ll have to enter this password when prompted by Proton Mail.
All right. Now that we’ve set up the basics, it’s time to enter your Outlook credentials in Proton Mail.
Enter your Outlook email address, along with the password you just set up above, and then click onNext. That’s about it. Follow the on-screen instructions, and the app will transfer your Outlook emails to Proton Mail without any hassles.
Setting up mail forwarding
The above method is specific to moving your old messages. You’ll have to use email forwarding if you want to transfer all your future messages to Proton Mail. Here’s how.
Head to Outlook settings again, and click onView all Outlook settings. Then selectMailand click onForwarding.
Then click onStart forwarding, enter your Proton Mail address and click onSave. Do this, and the new emails landing on your Outlook mailbox will get transferred to Proton Mail.
Moving your Outlook emails to Proton Mail
If you’ve finally made up your mind to move from Outlook to Proton Mail, it will be best to bring your old emails to your Proton Mail account along with you. Hopefully, the above methods helped you move your files quickly and without any trouble.
Radu Tyrsina
Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).
For most of the kids of his age, the Internet was an amazing way to play and communicate with others, but he was deeply impressed by the flow of information and how easily you can find anything on the web.
Prior to founding Windows Report, this particular curiosity about digital content enabled him to grow a number of sites that helped hundreds of millions reach faster the answer they’re looking for.
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