Cancel a Hotmail or Yahoo Email Account

Everything you need to know to close
your Hotmail or Yahoo Mail email account and get it deleted.

Even though Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail are the world's largest email services, that doesn't mean that you're necessarily going to be satisfied with them. For whatever reason, sometimes it's just time to move on...

Below, you'll find a step by step guide to closing your Hotmail email account or cancelling your Yahoo! Mail service.

We'll mention it again below, but please remember that deleting your account is a one-way process: once it's gone, you've lost all the email in it forever.

Cancel your Hotmail email account

To close your Hotmail email account, follow the steps below.

IMPORTANT: Deleting your email account is a one-way process, so you'd better be 100% sure you really want to go ahead. Proceed at your own risk!

NOTE: It takes time to delete your Hotmail account (30 days at the time this article was written) even after you close it.

Cancel your Yahoo Mail email account

If you don't log into a regular Yahoo Mail account for 4 months, it will automatically get deactivated.

If you want to close your Yahoo Mail account more quickly, you can do so, but you're going to have to wave goodbye to all of Yahoo's services, not just email. For instance, your Geocities web page, groups, auctions and all other Yahoo services will also be deleted. For a full explanation of the consequences of deleting a Yahoo account, see Yahoo's help system entry on the subject.

To close your Yahoo account (including Mail and all other services), follow the steps below.

IMPORTANT: Deleting your account is a one-way process, so you'd better be 100% sure you really want to go ahead. Proceed at your own risk!

NOTE: Even though your account will be instantly marked as being cancelled, it will actually be removed about 90 days later.

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