Does an email address expire if not used for several years? We opened [e-mail] a few years ago

Question

and now cannot open it.

Answer 1

One months of inactivity.  Then its temporarily suspended.  If you try to open it again you will be ask to for details of accounts.  If after 6 months, still inactive.  Then you have to sign in again.

Answer 2

My son goes fishing in Alaska for close to a year at a time, and is always amazed that his yahoo email still works.

I guess it's 'luck of the draw'.

Answer 3

Yep, you could try to e-mail them and ask them if they want to sell it though. Because if someone didn't own it, it would ask you if you wanted to reactivate it.

Answer 4

Yes it Expires if Not in use.

Answer 5

definitely!! others even expire faster.. like within a month without activity..

Answer 6

I had an email I did not use for a couple of years. It was de-activated by yahoo and yahoo gave me instructions as to how to request to re-activate same account again.

If you can't get to your email account, maybe you are using either the wrong user name or password.

Otherwise try getting a new email account at the other free web based emails. one that starts with a g....

Answer 7

After 6 months of inactivity it is gone

Answer 8

If your mail account is inactive for four months, it will close down.

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Answer 9

a year of expiration.

Answer 10

Yes after about 6 months