Sick and tired of your email service, but worried that switching providers is too much of a pain? Well, Google has attempted to solve that problem for those wishing to switch to its Gmail service. The search giant on Wednesday released a new feature that lets users import their email archives and contacts into their Gmail accounts directly. It also supports message forwarding from your old account for up to thirty days. The new feature supports importing from all the important email providers, including AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail and dozens of others. The feature is currently only available for new accounts, with support for existing accounts being added over time.

Google is making this really, really easy-all you have to do is enter your other mail service’s user name and password and Gmail does all the work, importing your messages and contacts. “It’s making a once frustrating process nearly painless, and it’s going to attract new users in droves,” says TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid. – Read the whole story…