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:
- 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
- Import them in your Mailfence account using steps mentioned in this KB article.
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](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Outlook-Contacts_export-mailfence.jpg)
2. Click on Manage option (in top-right corner), then click on Export contacts (-> All contacts).
![Migrate contacts to Mailfence export from outlook](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Outlook-Contacts_export-mailfence-2.jpg)
3. Click on Export.
![Migrate contacts to Mailfence Export contacts Hotmail](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Outlook-Contacts_export-mailfence-3.jpg)
4. Go to your Mailfence account, click on … (three dots) in contacts panel and click on Import.
![Migrate contacts to Mailfence from Outlook](https://blog.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/123.jpg)
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.
![](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/3-dots-action-menu.jpg)
![Migrate contacts to Mailfence navigation](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Gmail-Contacts_export-mailfence-0.jpg)
2. Select Google contacts.
![Migrate contacts to Mailfence from Google contacts](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Gmail-Contacts_export-mailfence.jpg)
3. Enter your Gmail email address and password and click on Next.
![](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/External-storage_mailfence_Gmail.jpg)
4. Click on Allow.
![Access to Google Account for Mailfence](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Gmail-Contacts_export-mailfence_2.jpg)
5. Click on Okay.
![](https://kb.mailfence.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Gmail-Contacts_export-mailfence_3.jpg)
Should you have any questions, please send us an email to support@mailfence.com (PGP key).