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Theodoric

01-11-2006 19:01

Hotmail: use it or lose it

Is it still true that if you don't access a Hotmail address at least once a month that you will lose it? Also, are the rules the same for .co.uk as for .com?

Paul K

01-11-2006 19:12

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Rules are the same across all the Hotmail domains, think it's once a month and if you don't use it for 90 days it's removed,
http://support.msn.com/eform.aspx?pr...il&ct=eformts#
Click more questions and then "Why was my account closed?"

kronas

01-11-2006 19:17

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

its 30 days of no access, the email address then gets 'reserved' but no incoming emails are recieved, i should think urther inactivity will mean account deletion.

Slyder

01-11-2006 19:47

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Stop having your mistress email your secret account and have the wife read how you really feel about her. :D

On a serious note I think Paul is right about it applying to both .com and .co.uk addresses. Not sure on the days grace thou as I like reading how joe bloggs thinks I need help in the bedroom. :D

SMHarman

01-11-2006 20:11

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Has this changed or was this always like this? I'm sure there have been times when my hotmail account was not used for months at a time but I still have it.

Theodoric

01-11-2006 20:20

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Thanks. So, it looks like 30 days is probably it.

I set up the account for a relative and I'm not sure whether he will be using it that much. Perhaps I would have been better going for a Yahoo account.

I also considered using one of my spare ntl addresses but, to be honest, I'm a little loathe to let anyone use an account that could cause me grief with ntl if it were ever misused, however unlikely this is.

Angua

01-11-2006 20:28

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

I receive stuff in my hotmail account but do not send stuff :shrug:

Paul K

01-11-2006 20:30

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Set them a gmail up instead, a lot less problematic and I think a bit better with its expectations of usage lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gmail

What happens to dormant accounts?
If you do not log in to your account for an extended period of time, we shall mark it dormant. After nine consecutive months of inactivity, Google will delete all messages in the account, close it and recycle the username.
If your dormant account is deleted, we cannot guarantee that you will be able to use your previous username again once it has been recycled. Make sure to log in to Google Mail regularly!

v0id	01-11-2006 22:55

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

you have to log into your gmail account every 90 days, or you lose it ;)

Shaun

01-11-2006 23:20

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

I love my Yahoo. Perhaps I'm wrong but it does offer me more than Google at the moment. :)

Chrysalis

02-11-2006 04:40

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

30 days is very short.

90 is reasonable but I think it should be a year.

AndyCambs

02-11-2006 05:53

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Googlemail is POP3 compatible too. Hotmail require some exhorbitant payment per year in order to enable synchronisation with Outlook. The arguement was allegedly to stop spammers, but Googlemail don't seem to have this problem...

v0id	05-11-2006 17:44

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by AndyCambs (Post 34149199)

Really? I have always had my hotmail addy hooked up to Outlook Esxpress, and have never paid a penny

Paul K

05-11-2006 17:56

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Yep if you have been using OE since POP access was started with Hotmail then you still have it, if you change your hotmail account or wipe your drive and re-install you will lose access to POP as a file is lost from your HD. At some point though they may stop free access alltogether, I know I lost POP access when I had to clean install Windows a while back.

MadGamer

05-11-2006 19:45

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

I havent had access to Hotmail through OE for ages.

Paul K

05-11-2006 19:53

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Nope it stopped for a lot of people a loooong time ago, some accounts still have the ability though, I still had POP access up till a recent clean install which scrubbed my Windows folder.

v0id	05-11-2006 19:57

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34151402)

I've clean installed, shall we say "just a few times" and I still have it :/

Edit: actually it's not POP, more like IMAP

homealone

05-11-2006 20:03

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34151460)

Nope it stopped for a lot of people a loooong time ago, some accounts still have the ability though, I still had POP access up till a recent clean install which scrubbed my Windows folder.

I still have POP access on my .com account, but when I set up an .uk one after they removed POP access for new accounts, it didn't have it, on that new one.

Hopefully having the main addy in my Outlook Express 'send/receive list shows me logging in regularly, as I very rarely use it for sending messages and have never had it discontinued.

Paul K

05-11-2006 20:20

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Yep you'll probably keep the .com access for a while, no doubt they will cut that eventually too at some point though. As long as you access it one way or the other it should stay live, logging in via POP is probably just as good as logging in via messenger or web interface.

homealone

05-11-2006 20:27

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 34151477)

you are prolly right about them withdrawing it, at some point, I'll have to re-assess my options, then - thanks for your thoughts on the login :)

Maggy

05-11-2006 22:45

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Hallo.I haven't touched my hotmail account for months..however I decided to resurrect MSN messenger yesterday and after a little faffing about I got back in using my hotmail account.However they did ask for another email addy to be added to my profile.I wonder how they feel about Gmail? ;)

kronas

05-11-2006 23:27

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34151530)

maybe they will direct some 'newsletters' to your hotmail, or mailyu about upgrading to the pay service :)

Maggy

06-11-2006 00:56

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by kronas (Post 34151536)

maybe they will direct some 'newsletters' to your hotmail, or mailyu about upgrading to the pay service :)

Pfft! Why pay when I can get an addy for free?:)

kronas

06-11-2006 22:57

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by Incognitas (Post 34151555)

Pfft! Why pay when I can get an addy for free?:)

extra storage ;)

MS said existing accounts will retain pop access, new accounts after a certain date do not have the feature.

but its MS ;)

Maggy

07-11-2006 01:17

Re: Hotmail: use it or lose it

Quote:

Originally Posted by kronas (Post 34152124)

extra storage ;)

MS said existing accounts will retain pop access, new accounts after a certain date do not have the feature.

but its MS ;)

Well I've more storage space than I need in an inbox with Gmail which is free and has an inbox size of 2781 MB of which I'm only using 39 MB currently.I also have a 1 GB free inbox with Yahoo.

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