# Delete Email Accounts

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delete-email-accounts/235920>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 23, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delete-email-accounts/235920 "2004-03-23T16:07:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![saluki\_fan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@saluki\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saluki_fan)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delete-email-accounts/235920/1 "2004-03-23T16:07:25Z")

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Is there anyway out there to delete free email accounts like yahoo and hotmail.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![Ross](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@Ross](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ross)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delete-email-accounts/235920/2 "2004-03-23T16:14:37Z")

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Don’t use your hotmail account for 90 days and it’ll be deleted.

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**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delete-email-accounts/235920/3 "2004-03-23T16:28:51Z")

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It won’t be deleted; it’ll just be suspended. If you want to use it again, it’ll allow you to re-register using the same user name.

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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delete-email-accounts/235920/4 "2004-03-23T16:49:42Z")

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Use it to send a lot of spam. Hotmail will then delete it for you. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Sister\_Vigilante](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@Sister\_Vigilante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sister_Vigilante)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2004, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/delete-email-accounts/235920/5 "2004-03-23T19:32:59Z")

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> It won’t be deleted; it’ll just be suspended. If you want to use it again, it’ll allow you to re-register using the same user name.

It wouldn’t let me, not unless I paid for an upgrade.