When I wrote about the Yahoo Mail Archiver I never expected to be deluged by requests for me to close Yahoo accounts. For some reason people began entering their Yahoo e-mail addresses into my e-mail notification form with the unsubscribe radio button selected.
At first I was curious why I was getting unsubscribe requests from people that were not on the notification list, but I eventually got some comments that clued me in to the fact that they thought I had the power to close their Yahoo accounts. The odd part is that I hadn’t even mentioned closing my account (in fact, it’s still open to this day). I was just explaining how you could archive your e-mail. It doesn’t make any sense, but a lot of things don’t make sense, so I just asked people to stop, and closed comments on the post so people would stop bugging me.
I wouldn’t have given it another thought, but this evening my sister asked me how to close her Yahoo mail account. I finally looked in the Yahoo help section to see how to close an account. As it turns out, it’s a very simple process. In retrospect, I should have made this information available to people instead of telling them to stop using my notification form, but that’s water under the bridge.
So, for anyone who still wants to delete their Yahoo account, don’t unsubscribe from my blog notification form, just do the following:
Go to the Yahoo account deletion page and login with your username and password. Then, to confirm once and for all that you want to delete everything associated with your login profile, enter your password again and click the button that says ‘Terminate this Account.’
Your account is now gone.
Tanks, i did not know abt this
sorry that i am closing my yahoo accout the reason i’m closing it is because when my friends try to email me it never works i’ll try to sign back up again. bye and thank you for your support
this link does not work. if you know of a way to delete a yahoo account please post it!
The link works just fine. You have to login, and once you do it will ask you to confirm your account deletion.
you know how u put a pet name to change your password well u should make another password to get to your pets name entry because people can guess and the pet entry password should be not changable
This link below works perfect, I just deleted my yahoo account,
you must try when the servers aren’t so busy…say…between 1am-9am EST which is 7am- 3pm European time:
by the way if any needs a 1GB gmail send me your emails here:
[email protected]
https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
Thanks, this worked great!
pls i just want to close down this yahoo mail so i want all my incoming mails to be sent to my other box matisco_p@yahoo .com
thanks
thakks it work great
too much junk mail has being sent to my email add, its has become to much,need a new email add
delete my id from your list
j s sankar: What list? I’m not Yahoo and I don’t have any lists with you on it. Go to the link I provided in this entry if you want to delete your Yahoo Account.
I dont need a yahoo account anymore that is why I am deleting it.
Thanks for the explanation.
yes i sure hope someone can help me here i have a yahoo id but i had merged it with sbc yahoo then i canceled but for some reason i cant delete this im wanting to delete because of someone who has been harrassing me for over 5 yrs on this id name if anyone can help me here id sure be gratefull i have called sbc and they tell me its a yahoo prob and they wont help but everytime i go to delete it says to call sbc so i dont know what to do but im desperate i dont want to be harrassed anymore.
hello!!
one A–HOLE has hacked my YAHOO email account since he had all the information needed to know the password
now i m not evenm able to check my emails and that guy is using my account to trouble people and me
can you please help me hoe can i delete my email account
i dont know the password to my account since that guy has chandeg it! please help me
i need the help very urgently
plz plz plz
Even after instoling Cyber Patrol against P-rn this address is full of this material
I wanna delete my yahoo mail and unfortunately i can’t
can I deleted my yahoo email account BUT keep my id for yahoo messenger?
jar771: I don’t believe so. The page I linked to is a page to delete your Yahoo account, not just your Yahoo Mail account, so if you use that, they will both be gone.
However, after a period of inactivity (6 months I think), your Yahoo mail account will be marked inactive, then later closed. I don’t know if using your instant messenger account will keep the mail account active or not, but it’s possible that if you never use your e-mail account again, it will eventually be deactivated, while leaving your instant messaging account active.
how can i close or delete my old e-mail account out after i haven’t used it andforgot password and seret question. too many e-mail addys to keep up with too much info?
Im not able to receive offline messages in yahoo messenger……Plz help me or let me know tht can i delete my yahoo if from the messenger but need to use my yahoo account..So tht i can re-add my id in messenger…May be thn it gonna works………..Plz help me oout………I couldnt receive any offline msgs now:(
sky: What do you need to delete it for? Just ignore it and it will go away.
Manish: I’d suggest contacting Yahoo about that issue.
I even had contacting them 3 days bac….but there is no reply from their side yet……..Or else u tell how will i contact them???…….and if u have any alternative?
You’ll have to be patient. They may take some time to get back to you.
Yeah i got their reply./………….they said thanx for mailing us….but they given up the page of deletion page of yahoo id……..They said contact them and the concern person will help u out……….But thn i once again sended tht mail where they wanted me to mail………Got their reply,.,…once again they said thx…………but my problem remain the same as it is…….:(….If u can help…i will be so thanfull to u……..Because those guys r not helping instead saying thx everytime…….And u r right yahoo is the better option for this….but now they r not helping me…so wht to do now?…………..if u knw any scripting related to (not receiving offline msgs of specify id?>…because i dont have any problem with my other id’s in yahoo…….So do let me knw?
If Yahoo can’t help you, there’s little I can do.
I followed the instruction listed at the yahoo website to terminate an account (OVER A YEAR AGO). The account is still active. Any other suggestions? I have attempted contacting Yahoo via their online form (several times) but have never received a reply back. I’d love to get rid of that old account for good!
Judy: Why do you need to get rid of it? If you just stop using it, I don’t see how it affects you at all.
My god, I’ve been looking for hours and hours trying to find somewhere that will tell me how to delete my yahoo email address-because I just don’t like the address and want to change it but don’t want to end up with 2 or more email addresses (now i have gmail anyway) but then I came across this link- and thank goodness for that, I thought i was going to commit suicide at the end of all that struggle! Thankyou sooooooooo much! By the way, I read some of the other comments saying that the link doesn’t work-well just thought you might want to know from me that it works very well!! Thanks!
it worked great
i don’t want this yahoo account no more
Help
Close SBC Yahoo! Account
You must call SBC Customer Care at 1-866-SBC-DIAL in order to cancel your account.
Go to
http://www.yahoo.com
How I can find again my emails that I delete by mistake
They’ll be in the Trash folder unless you’ve already emptied it.
Thanks. It worked great, but I forgot to keep a frien’s ID from my account. Can I reverse the deletion, get the ID then delete it again? Or is that too much to hope for?
I don’t think so. As far as I know, once it’s gone, it’s gone. You could try e-mailing Yahoo to be sure.
when i was trying to rename my yahoo id i got a message saying ur account has been deleted and it will be in the data base for 3months.i would like to know whether it has been deleted or not and if deleted is there any way to retrieve it??
When I was trying to rename my yahoo ID [email protected] (which is impossible),unfornately I received a message saying your account has been deleted and it will be in the data base for 3months.I would like to know whether it is deleted or not and if not deleted is there any way to retrive it because i have some important photoes in the yahoo album.
if u have a 2nd yahoo mail/and messenger acct..and dont want it anymore how do u get rid of the 2nd acct./messenger, got rid of mail but cant get rid of messenger..any help would b a help. thank you
I realy do not my username and now I want to change it. Thank you for the directions
THANK YOU, IT WORKED GREAT
hai if u want to delete yahoo account please click here
type the address bar exactly
https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
bye c u suman,..
i deleted the wrong account afew days ago is there anyway i can get it back
clicked on your deletion link and it came up with me to call verizon on their tech support # thats why I’m giving up on verizon DSL and paying more for a local, service, they answer the phone in five minutes not hours later and you get the wrong people. thanks for your help though
hey benji plzzz email me i need to talk to u
Thanks so much, I am glad someone knew how to delete a darn yahoo account without having to go thru 100’s of damm screens and read read read……… Again thanks bunches.
Char
i have an account i accidentaly deleted, is their anyway to retrieve it? please help!!! thanks
I don’t want this account
i cannot log into messenger so i don’t want this id
Who’s forcing you to use it?
Hello there!
I have a VERY OLD (yucky) profile in Yahoo Member Directory…that I didn’t even realize was there. Wrong age, wrong email- name- city- state…I want it all deleted and just continue to keep my regular
Yahoo ID and email addy. When I typed in my name just to see what would happen…and >! There was an old me…I about….well
maybe you can imagine! LOL How can I get rid of the old lies &
way old email addy…that I haven’t had in yrs? Thank you for any help…and TY for your attention.. Big HUGS to US all !!
Did you try following the instructions I originally outlined?
this delete account page is NOT open
yeah the yahoo account is gone, but people can still send messages to this id!!! They are not told: “Hey! Relax! This account is no loger valid”. Why didn’y u think of it???
every time i try to log in to a web page, i am asked to enter my user name & password. when i do, i get a message of invalid user id or password. its bull ship! i want to cancel, log off, and delete all yahoo bulssship now.
I still can’t figure it out. I’m just bonehead stupid. I want to close it because phony international lottery scams have compromised it so bad I don’t want it anymore.
David: Who cares? If you don’t want it, stop using it. I don’t see how it can affect you unless you keep logging in to the account. If you just forget about it, it will eventually be closed and you will never be bothered by it again.
Just show me how to delete daily inquiries,permantely.
What are daily inquiries?
hi..someone used my id and spread what was inside my email…
i just wanted to ask if i can delete the email and reuse it again? i mean if i can use the same ID again?
I already called the attention of yahoo regarding this because the one who used it knew almost everything about me(bday, postcode,location,answer to the challenge question which was easy) unfortunately yahoo told me that they can not change it anymore..
the ID is important for me because I use it for almost every application form i filled up. I already opened another account but since I have filed so many applications already, I just want to keep the same ID and just change some details.
its so easy to change passwords as long as u know the answers to the questions. its making me uneasy that someone can log in to my account and read my emails and send it to some people..
please do help.
thanks a lot.
jan
Jan: First I’d suggest changing your password so the person can’t access your account. Second, change the answers to the questions so they can’t get into your account anymore.
hi dan,
thanks for the immediate reply…
i changed passwords already..no use since the person knows me and my nday and almost everything there…even the answer to the challange question!!!(which was pretty easy by the way)…
is it possible to change the answer to the challenge question?
jan
I want to change my email address and want to shift from .co.in to only .com.how can I do that?
I’ve no idea.
Jan: I would be very surprised if you couldn’t change your answers, and I’d suggest making up answers that the person wouldn’t be able to guess but that you’ll still remember.
dan,
how can i change the answer to the challenge question? yahoo told me that i cant change it ..
jan
Oh, then I guess you can’t. I’m surprised, but I’d take Yahoo’s word over mine.
dan,
thanks so much again..
is it possible to track who changed my password?
jan
i have to delete my account because my mom said so….i did it with out asking…. : (
annonomouse
It doesn’t matter if the account exists as long as you don’t use it, and even if you did delete it, if you’re disobedient, you could just create another one. If you are obedient, you will just stop using it, so there’s really no need to delete it.
i want to change my user name “anju behera”. please help me!!!
i want to delete this account because i have another account.
and my wife is trying to find the way to get in there. so please
delete my account.
Efrain: I can’t delete your account (doesn’t anyone see how silly it is to ask me to delete their account? It would be a major security hole if I could delete any account I wanted to).
How about you delete it yourself, following the instructions above? Or, you could change the password to something that she doesn’t know.
Thanks man, it’s gone, it’s gone, gone for ever!
hi , i want to delete my account so i can use the same name but with othet yahoo domain, like , i have [email protected] and i want to change it to [email protected] ; is it possible to do it without deleting , and if not , when i can creat another account using the same name(ID)
thanks for the expr prof
I’d suggest you talk to Yahoo.
delete my yahoo account.
How about this – pretend I deleted your account, and never check it again.
I want to do this from the yahoo site without using your link, but I can not determine how to do it at the yahoo site–I have searched everywhere???
I don’t remember where I found the link. I think it was from the Yahoo Help pages.
don’t use yahoo mesenger
my dad wants me to delete it
please delete my id [email protected]
I don’t know how many times I need to say this, but apparently I have to say it again.
Please read carefully:
I cannot delete random people’s Yahoo accounts.
I want to delete this account
Then I suggest you do so.
I have tried to retrieve my Challenge question of father’s middle name, and no dice. How can I close the Yahoo account and start all over again?
I deleted my account…thanks for the explanation…but now i have a question that has nothing to do with deleting an account, i hope u will be able to answer it… whenever i sign in to watch videos on yahoo launch it always says error:We are experiencing technical difficulties right now, please try again later.
Please use the following error code when writing to Yahoo! Help. then it gives me an error code. i don’t get y it doesnt work, can you help? PLZ!
i deleted my yahoo id.. and i was meaning to delete my yahoo 360 .. how would i do that since i already deleted my yahoo id.. it wont let me log in
Anonymous: I don’t know. Try contacting Yahoo.
me: I think they all use the same ID, so it’s all deleted at once.
Thanks a bunch for this. Everyting worked out just right.
I don’t believe this! Are the bulk of you so internet-retarded, that you must spam a blog with your inexcusable ranter on “the link doesn’t work” or “please delete this yahoo account”?!?!?!! MY LUN! Don’t people read? I mean, you would think that they can create an email address, thus they can read – at the least that dan.hersam.com has NOTHING to do with Yahoo. That’s like saying, “I’ll go to Kadoya Sushi to complain and return my Best Buy DVD player.”
[sigh] [very big sigh]
Hi, I want to check if my friends yahoo ID is active. When I send emails it bounces back but my other friends beleive that it is active because they saw him online.
Li: Thank you for providing a sane viewpoint.
Tim: Sigh.
i have a old sbcyahoo account i want to delete i merged it with sbc and everytime i want to delete it it says call sbc well i have many many times and i guess they dont know how to get rid of it if anyone can help me out here it would be wonderfull .i no longer have sbc and now they cant help me anyway will this name be here forever.
I just signed up for your Yahoo. I was trying to find a person on the FREE people search. I found there was not a free people search from Yahoo, but did not realize this until I had to sign in. I feel this was a dupe just to get me to sign in. To me this is NOT an upstanding way of doing business. Very sly. Besides to many pop-ups. Please delete all sign in information from me. I don’ feel your trustworthy
William: You don’t feel I’m trustworthy because Yahoo wanted you to create an account to use their service? Do you realize I have nothing to do with Yahoo?
happy new year!
Question about yahoo messenger:
I cannot make my other profiles (alias id’s) inactive. The all say active but there is no selection for inactive status in the drop down menu. Although my main ID is in the invisible status, I think that the other alias profiles are showing as available. Where is the inactive selection?
My mail was free of pop ups and junk mail.. Then I decided I wanted YAHOO..Since downloading it, I am being choked to death by Junk mail..Other Peoples mail,Pop Ups !!!!!Every A;m when checking it , I have From 26 To 40 of everybody’s mail but mine…Yahoo either needs to be junked or repaired because as it is now…IT STINKS..
please Delete my yahoo account and email i got somthing different thank you
too many junky emails
Peg: You downloaded Yahoo? What the heck are you talking about?
Mark: Sigh.
i want to delete my id becouse i recived mails from unknown id
I cant go to the delete page
ds pandit: If you didn’t check your e-mail, you wouldn’t receive any messages from anyone.
V: Then I guess you won’t be able to delete your Yahoo account.
thanks for ur link. it was fantastic
thank ya i did not know
i just wanted to say:
To Efrain Castro;
i was wondering, why would you possibly want to keep your email’s and email address from your wife? it’s not fair for me as an outsier to ask this, but someone’s gotta speak on this womens behaf. i mean, she’s your wife, the person your suposed to trust and love the most. if you dont trust her with your messages, then maybe taking the time to talk with her will help better then changing any address.i’m not kidding, it really does help, and i’m sure she’ll feel more like she’s apart of your life for it.
Jan, I’m really really sorry someone was unkind enough to use your information to try to hurt you. it isnt fair and it isnt right. i hope your doing alright, and that everything is resolved now. from what i’ve notied, you can put any answer into the yahoo question’s asked. for example: if it asks for yuor favourite dog, you can type in : “ilovethecardinals,” really, whatever you’d like to, and it will work. as long as you remember it, it should be just fine to write in there.
Webmaster, webblogger(?). i thank you for your time and effort in helping everyone on this bord…(blog? i just kind of surfed on into thie website ) i know people are asking the same questions, maybe not understanding and it can be frustrating. but from there point of view, they may be new with computers…or even new with this part of computing. for me it helps to remember my very first week online,some years back. i didnt know what a website was, what “.com” was all about, and everything was like a brand new language. it seems fair to us because we’ve learned alot of that language, but it isnt very fair to them to have to bump and poke through learning online as i (and perhaps you) have gone through. (i just wish websites like yahoo would make it easer, and that everything online was designed in a way to compliment the user, not the system). anyway, many thanks for taking the time to help, and i hope you have a good day. cheers!
mahogohney: Thanks for your comments and for pointing out that these people may be new to the internet. I should remember that, along with the fact that patience is a virtue.
many thanks for your comments. honestly it’s just good that someone is here trying to help everyone out. thats a pretty big pratice in virtue i’d say!
I am trying to delete my yahoo 360 page, but not my whole account! PLEASE HELP!!!
stop i changed my yahoo messenger
thanks mate it does work.
NO need to have a account
how do i get rid of yahoo 360, hates it, everyone can get into it no privacy at all, want my old profile back
I DONT WANT TO DELETE MY YAHOO ACCOUNT BUT ONE OF MY ALIASES AND ITS NOT WORKIN BECUZ EVERYTIME I TRY THEY KEEP ASKN FOR MY PASSWORD EACH TIME I PUT IT IN… I NEED HELP!!!
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
HEY, cAN SOME ONE HELP ME DELETE MY YAHOO 360 PAGE? BUT I DONT WANT TO DELETE MY ID.
Apparently, you can’t.
i don’t want this yahoo account no more
i want to delete my yahoo id. because i dont want use it again
I just signed up for 360 cos I was curious but I really dont like it or want it and it’s not as easy to use as the one on MSN, How can I delete 360 without losing my yahoo account. I searched yahoo help looking for a contact us button so I could email someone but couldnt find any help at all…does anyone know what to do? Thanks to you all in advance from cold cold UK. HELEN 28 UK
If you wish to delete your Yahoo! 360° profile completely, you must delete your associated Yahoo! ID :(
You cannot make your Yahoo! 360° page disappear. But you can prevent it from displaying anything you’ve added to it. (by setting “who can see?” to “just me”. Unfortunately, as I know, there’s no other way!
Source(s):
1) http://privacy.yahoo.com/privacy/us/360/…
2) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/y-360/…
Thanks this links so still use to me now i can deactivate my account my email because their several spamming on my ym that they hated me… besides i dont thinks use my account anymore i leave my enjoy life for now and peace rather than fighting each other on ym. thanks!
i dont want used my email
wow helen im glad someone answered to your help call, cuz mine was ignored ! so to all you **** !
thank you
thanks !!!!! i was able to deactivate my yahoo mail …. following the information you provided.
Thank you for this entertaining page. I am married to a geek, so I get to stay as ignorant as I want while still enjoying the benefits of knowledge, but even I could get a laugh at many of the comments here. I wonder what the general age group is.
I came across your site trying to find out if I could transfer all of my My Yahoo info over to the new and improved ID I was finally able to set up (I think it was not available when I first tried). Apparently, it looks like I’ll have to set up all five pages from scratch before I can delete the original account (using it as an example). Major bummer, but I’ve hated the original address so it will be worth it. I never dreamed I’d have a problem deleting the first account when I am ready. I’ll keep this site in mind, tho, just in case reality eludes me.
Thanks for your patience.
I close my email address
dear sir
i delete my id
how i recover my id pls
help me and sent me mail
Once it’s deleted, it’s gone.
thanks for providing this info i can no longer and cant activate my ym chat and email keep in touch.
hi
how r u
dear i my friends delete my yahoo account in ur web site
can i recover my yahoo account
its very inportent for me
my delete yahoo id is [email protected],
i hope sir u help me ant recover my yahoo id
pls sent me sugest mil
what i can do
pls
help me
i waiting for ur repply
current my yahoo id sent u mail me
[email protected]
pls
Heres how to get a hacked Yahoo email account back: dial yahoo direct at 1-408-349-1572, talk to a customer service rep, explain what happened, that someone hacked you and changed your info. They will tell u to email this account and you have to return the info requested, DO NOT CHANGE anything in the subject line, and presto! They compare your given info to the ORIGINAL info NOT the changed info, and within 24 hrs or less u got it back! [email protected]
If this helps anyone, please come online in Yahoo in baseball chatroom MLB:1 and let me know it worked.
Masteraceman
bad messages sent from yaho mesenger to mobile phone the person who is sending this messages is korn_sucks5 we have been geting messages for the last 3 days we would realy wish you could cancle this persons id