With the overrated scandal about the Petraus affair - the CIA general from the US who was caught red handed due to his email trails about an extra marital affair via Gmail, i think it's just about timely to write Email Configurations; how to port your emails to Mail Clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird or Alto Mail.
It's imperative that you use your Gmail account to do this because IMAP and POP are free for Gmail users. As for Yahoo fanboys, you have to let your Gmail account fetch those emails from Yahoo first then configure your Gmail for Outlook.
Click the link below for a step by step process:
http://support.google.com/mail/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=ts.cs&ts=1668960
Thanks to Google Mail Help!
- MAC
(by the way, it's so frigginly hottie hot with someone right now.. hehehehe)