How to forward emails from an old to a new email address?

I have just set up an new yahoo email address and want to forward emails from my old yahoo address to my new?

• I will tell important people of the change but want to make sure I capture all, also is it easy to copy email history over and contacts and how do I close the old email address?

• Answer:

  Use the third party "True Switch" to handle the transfer of your mails/address book etc etc... to your new E-mail address. What’s TrueSwitch? It transfers webmail info Along with our partner, TrueSwitch, we make transferring information from your other webmail accounts super simple. All your contacts. All your emails. All your calendar info. All of it! Just tell us the old account you want to switch from, and the new account you’d like to switch to. That’s it! Start here. For desktop email Interested in transferring Address Book information from your desktop application (ie, Outlook or Palm)? If so, that’s also easy to do. Here’s how: In the upper-right corner of your Mail page, click Options and select Mail Options. On the left side of the page that opens, click Contacts Options. On the right of this page, click Import/Export to get started. http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/yahoomail/manage/manage-66.html To close your old account, Sign in to that "old" account and go to this link: https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user