Copying your emails from Google Apps custom domain to Outlook.com custom domain

For those who decided to leave Google Apps free and head towards Outlook.com free service, this article is intended to help you migrate your old emails from your Google Apps account to your Outlook.com account.

Why is this needed?

Simple, Outlook, webmail, and Windows 8 app do not let you copy your emails from one service to another.

Microsoft provides a service to copy emails from Gmail to Outlook.com if you use their default domains (@gmail.com and @outlook.com for example); but not if you use custom domain names (@yourdomain.com).

Before you get started

I am assuming that you have already set up your email custom domain in Outlook.com and have access to both email accounts.  I may throw another article together soon for how to get started with your personal domain on Outlook.com.

Here's how to do it:

1. Download and install Windows Live Essentials 2012.
2. Add your Google Apps (IMAP) account and your Outlook.com custom domain account to Windows Live Essentials Mail.
3. In your Google Apps inbox, select all emails (or selectively select if you're into that) and right-click, click Copy to and choose your Outlook.com folder of choice.
4. Sit back and let the copy happen.

Others

Others have set up temporary outlook.com mailboxes (backup mailboxes) so they can compare email counts, feel free to do this.

Hope this helps!

Jess