How to Delete an Email Address

Email address accounts allow you to receive electronic mail from other users who have email address accounts as well. Some of the major email address providers include Yahoo!, Hotmail and Gmail. While email address accounts are convenient, they are at times bombarded with junk mail and broken into by hackers, exposing personal information. If you no longer want your email address account for whatever reason, you can cancel it and delete your email address permanently.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Google Gmail

1. Log in to your Google Gmail account using your sign-on name and password.

2. Click the "Settings" button on the top of the page, and open "Account and tab." Click "Google account settings," and click "Edit" next to "My Products."

3. Click "Remove Gmail permanently" and confirm to close the email address. You cannot reactivate a Gmail email address once you cancel it.

Yahoo! Email Address

4. Go to the Yahoo! email address termination page (see Resources) and sign in using your username and password.

5. Read the cancellation notice provided. Type the provided code in the supplied box once you are done reading the notice.

6. Click "Terminate this account," and confirm. As with Google Gmail, you cannot reactivate a Yahoo! email address once it has been deleted.

Hotmail Email Address

7. Log in to your Hotmail email account, and click the "Help" link on the top.

8. Type "Close account" in the keyword search window, and press "Enter." A link to close your account appears. Click "Close your account."

9. Click "Go to close your account." Read the cancellation notice, and click "Close account." Your email address is deleted and cannot be retrieved.

References

• Canceling Gmail email address
• Canceling Yahoo! email address

Resources

• Yahoo! email account termination