# Outlook forgets my email!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-forgets-my-email/656051>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 18, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-forgets-my-email/656051 "2013-04-18T18:14:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-forgets-my-email/656051/1 "2013-04-18T18:14:37Z")

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I went to [outlook.com](http://outlook.com) to make a new separate email address that I needed for something. I make my account and everything and log in, then I try to access it a couple days later and it says it doesn’t exist.

What’s even more ridiculous is that when I go to register another email address and I try the email address that I had before that it’s not logging me into, it says that it’s taken!

Ugh, now I got to register another email and the one name that I did think was good has now been lost and I cannot register it.

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**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-forgets-my-email/656051/2 "2013-04-18T19:57:51Z")

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After doing some research I’m not seeing any easy answers, you will probably have to write them.

If you just need a throwaway e-mail and don’t care about other people seeing the mail or long-term message storage, [http://mailinator.com/](http://mailinator.com/) is very easy to use. Just make up an address like [sdmb@mailinator.com](mailto:sdmb@mailinator.com) and [mailinator.com](http://mailinator.com) will accept the mail, then you can go there to read the message.

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**Author:** ![R3d\_Anonymous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/aeb1de/32.png) [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/outlook-forgets-my-email/656051/3 "2013-04-18T22:33:08Z")

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Thanks **control-z**. It really isn’t that big of a deal as I really had no emails in there. I am just going to have to make a new email account. I created a new email because I started a new message board, so I wanted a separate email just for that (because Gmail reveals too much of your information because I am on Google+). The only problem is getting a new email address because so many of the ones that I want are taken.