{"id":995,"date":"2022-01-07T11:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T11:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hostinger.io\/support\/2022\/01\/07\/5866297-how-to-migrate-emails-from-yahoo-to-hostinger-email\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T12:12:09","slug":"5866297-how-to-migrate-emails-from-yahoo-to-hostinger-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5866297-how-to-migrate-emails-from-yahoo-to-hostinger-email\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Migrate Emails From Yahoo to Hostinger Email"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"no-margin\">To migrate emails from Yahoo to Hostinger Email, follow the steps below &#128071; <\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_155eff9b07\">Step 1 &ndash; Prerequisites<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To properly migrate email accounts from Yahoo, you need to <b><a href=\"https:\/\/help.yahoo.com\/kb\/generate-manage-third-party-passwords-sln15241.html?guccounter=1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\" rel=\"noopener\">generate an app password<\/a><\/b> for the account:<\/p><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><div class=\"intercom-container intercom-align-center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/support\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/55\/2022\/01\/e1ed078b-3c67-4782-8d56-8150324a5ae1.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/div><div class=\"intercom-interblocks-callout\" style=\"background-color: #e3e7fa80;border-color: #334bfa33\">\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Make sure to <b>save the app password<\/b> &ndash; it&rsquo;s only shown <b>once<\/b>! If you missed it, delete it and generate a new one &#128161; <\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_3f8a2f658f\">Step 2 &ndash; Gather Details<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">To successfully migrate your accounts to us, gather these details from Yahoo:<\/p><ol>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Source <b>email account <\/b>&ndash; your email account address<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\">Source email <b>password <\/b>&ndash; the generated app password<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"no-margin\"><b>Mail Server <\/b>(<b>IMAP<\/b>)<b> <\/b>name &ndash; for Yahoo, it&rsquo;s <b>imap.mail.yahoo.com<\/b><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol><p class=\"no-margin\">\n<\/p><h2 id=\"h_74999a5a3c\">Step 3 &ndash; Initiate Migration<\/h2><p class=\"no-margin\">Finally, once the above steps are taken care of, access the<b> <a href=\"\/support\/5866288-how-to-migrate-emails-to-hostinger#h_3c71a00b6b\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"intercom-content-link\">Email Import<\/a><\/b> tool and <b>initiate the migration<\/b> &#128522;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Migrating email accounts from Yahoo to Hostinger<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"include_on_kodee":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hostinger-email-migration-and-backup"],"hreflangs":[{"locale":"en-US","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/5866297-how-to-migrate-emails-from-yahoo-to-hostinger-email\/","default":1},{"locale":"es-ES","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/es\/support\/5866297-como-migrar-los-emails-de-yahoo-a-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"fr-FR","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/fr\/support\/5866297-comment-migrer-les-emails-de-yahoo-vers-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"id-ID","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/id\/support\/5866297-bagaimana-cara-migrasi-email-yahoo-ke-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"pt-PT","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/br\/support\/5866297-como-migrar-e-mails-do-yahoo-para-a-hostinger\/","default":0},{"locale":"uk-UA","link":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/ua\/support\/5866297-----yahoo--hostinger\/","default":0}],"include_on_kodee":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4042,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/4042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hostinger.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}