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How do I migrate contacts to my Mailfence account?

Note: Before you migrate contacts to your Mailfence account, create a backup. This will allow you to avoid any possible data loss during migration process.

General steps:

  1. Export your contacts from external account in one of the following formats:
    • vCard (recommended)
    • CSV (-> make sure to transform your exported .csv file using this template)
    • LDIF
  2. Import them in your Mailfence account using steps mentioned in this KB article.

To avoid duplicated contacts, do not import the same contacts file again.

Service specific steps:

Migrate contacts to Mailfence from Hotmail/Outlook :

1. Sign in to your Hotmail/Outlook account using web-interface, then expand the dotted bar and click on People option.

Outlook-Contacts_export-mailfence
Click on All apps to view complete list.

2. Click on Manage option (in top-right corner), then click on Export contacts (-> All contacts).

Migrate contacts to Mailfence export from outlook

3. Click on Export.

Migrate contacts to Mailfence Export contacts Hotmail
Your contacts should be exported in .csv format.

4. Go to your Mailfence account, click on … (three dots) in contacts panel and click on Import.

Migrate contacts to Mailfence from Outlook
Migrate Hotmail/Outlook contacts to Mailfence

5. Select the MS Outlook and Choose the file to import.

6. Click on Import.

Migrate contacts to Mailfence from Gmail:

1. Go to Mailfence Contacts-> Click on the … (three dots) in the contact panel and click on Import.

Migrate contacts to Mailfence navigation

2. Select Google contacts.

Migrate contacts to Mailfence from Google contacts

3. Enter your Gmail email address and password and click on Next.

4. Click on Allow.

Access to Google Account for Mailfence

5. Click on Okay.

Number of contact(s) imported

Should you have any questions, please send us an email to support@mailfence.com (PGP key).

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