If you need to close your email account, you should take the proper precautions to make sure that your old email is not accessible.Send a mass email with your new contact information to your contacts.You can learn how to set up email forwarding and automated messages to help you transition out of email.If your email is hacked, or you don't know your password, you should find ways to keep your account.
Step 1: Emails, photos, and documents can be saved from your old email.
Those documents can be saved to your computer or cloud storage.Before you close your account, make sure to look through any places in your email where old pictures, files, or documents are stored.If you want to save email exchanges, look through old emails.Some of the documents might be of use to you.If you are going to close your entire account, not just your email, you should save or download any files you have saved to your OneDrive account.Before you close your Microsoft account, make sure your Xbox is backed up.After you close your account, no progress that you have made on your games or scores will be saved.
Step 2: If you have money on your account, spend it.
If you sign into the account website, you will be able to see if you have money in your account.You may have put money into your account for a variety of reasons.You may have put money into your account when you were out of the country.If you have a Microsoft account, you should spend the money on digital content in the Windows Store, Windows Phone Store and Xbox before you close your account.You can purchase media before you close your account with other providers.
Step 3: Passwords and product keys can be saved on your email.
Product keys are used for Microsoft products.A product key is the code that comes with a Microsoft product.You should save this code if you have to uninstall your product.If you have passwords for websites or services in your email, you should search for them and save them in a new location.If you bought Microsoft Office online, you had to use an email account.The email with the product key code and the order number can be found by typing it into the search bar.The email should be saved in a new document.
Step 4: Send a message to your contacts that you are closing the account.
Let your friends, family and professional contacts know how to reach you.Select the boxes next to each contact you want to notify that you are closing your account from the contacts page in your email.If you have Gmail, select "Email" in the group details pane.Give your contacts a new email address if you write an email that tells them you are closing their account.Send your contact information to your new email address.
Step 5: The account has subscriptions linked to it.
Make sure you cancel your subscriptions if you are going to close the account.If you have a Microsoft account, you may be able to subscribe to either Office or OneDrive.Go to "Services and subscriptions" to sign into your Microsoft account.Follow the instructions to stop receiving paid subscriptions.If you have other subscriptions through your email account but not with your service, you should go to the support page of the service or retailer.You need to locate the information for how to cancel your subscription.
Step 6: Email forwarding and automated replies can be set up.
You can phase out your old email with these two features.An automated reply will let people know where they can reach you after you close your account.Emails can be forwarded to you at your new email address.After a waiting period, some email accounts will close completely, while automated replies and email forwarding will stop.Go to "Managing your account" and select "Email forwarding" if you have a Microsoft account.If you enter a new email address, your emails will be forwarded to it.You can follow the steps to write an automated message if you select "Sending automated vacation replies" under "Managing your account".You won't be able to close or reuse your email after you've deleted your Gmail account.After 60 days, your old email address can be recycled to another user.
Step 7: To get rid of your email, go to the app.
For example, if you want to go to Gmail, don't do it at Google Accounts.The reason this can be confusing is that you use your email account to sign into your Google account, so be careful not to wipe your account if you want to.You will lose your search history and YouTube account if you uninstall your entire account with Google.Go to the settings for the Gmail app to get rid of the email address.
Step 8: To remove your account, navigate to the page.
The "Manage your account" tab can be found under this page.If you can't locate the page, go to the support page for your email service and type "delete my account" in the search box.To remove your account, follow the steps and navigate to the page.To confirm your identity and remove your account, you will have to re-enter the password.There are a number of reasons why you want to remove the account.Click "Other" if you want to write in your response.
Step 9: You should confirm that you want to close the account.
The service will try to convince you to keep your account.You can confirm that you want to close your account by going to the bottom of the page.In Microsoft emails, the final step will say "Mark account for closure" if you click on this button.
Step 10: Reopen your email account.
If you want to get your account back, log back into your email account and follow the steps to reactivate it.Email providers will wait for a period before permanently closing your account.If you want to know how long the waiting period is for your email service, you can look at the FAQ or support page.Microsoft will take 60 days to close the account and reuse the email address.
Step 11: If you can't access your email, you need a password.
If you're unable to access your account because you want to close it, you can use the steps to recover your password instead.If you forget your password, there is a smaller link under the sign in page.Answer any security questions or use a temporary password that is sent to you in a message to an alternate email access to unlocks your account.Call the customer support for your service if you're still not able to access your email account after going through the password recovery steps.They can help you access your account.
Step 12: If your email has been hacked, you can recover it.
If your account has been hacked, you can recover your email without closing it.Send emails to your contact list to let them know that your email was hacked and that they shouldn't click on any links in emails from you.Updating any security software, installing software to remove the malware, or taking the computer to a professional to have the software removed are all options if you have a computer that's been compromised.You can change your password by going to the settings in your email.Email providers can help you secure your email if you complete any steps.
Step 13: You can link your current email to another email address.
If you don't like the name you choose for your email address, this may be a good option for you.Two email addresses will share the same inbox if you create a new email address through your old email account.You can use this new email address to send and receive emails.You will have the best of both worlds, you will be able to correspond with contacts who have your old email address, but you can also give them a new email.If you have a Yahoo account, sign in and then click on the gear icon in your account.You can check the availability of email addresses by clicking on "Accounts".Click "Choose" when you find one you like.Go to your new inbox if you answer the CAPTCHA code to confirm that you are a human.