For all the fabulous features Google has put in to Gmail over the years, there has been one that has been missing that seemed like a no-brainer to most: importing mail and contacts from your old account.

When I switched to Gmail, one of the biggest issues for me, and just about everyone else that took up with the service, was that there was no easy way for us to bring our old email with us from other accounts we had used previous to it.  Some time in the recent past, people who were signing up for Gmail were given the choice to import from their old accounts, but those of us where had been around for a while were still left out in the cold.

Well, Google has ginally taken pity on us.  Simply go in to your account, click on “Settings” and then to “Accounts and Import” and start entering the information about the old email account you wish to import.  Just be careful with the number of contacts you decided to import… as I am not spending my evening deleting hundreds of useless contacts.

FINALLY!  I can at long last get rid of my AOL account.  (no, I’m not joking, I still have one)