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I need help regarding my Yahoo Mail Account!!!?

I have a yahoo account. In this account I enjoy the services like yahoo mail, yahoo answers, yahoo groups et-al

Due to excessive spam and junk mails in my yahoo mail. I have just got fed up with this email ID. So I want to delete it, but at the same time I don't want to loose my Yahoo answers account(You can see ) how beautiful my Yahoo answers account is. Can anyone tell me how do I get rid of my Yahoo mail Account with out loosing Yahoo answers account.

10 pts for sure. Please Answer!!!!!

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Edd is right, you can't get a mail account deleted separately, but there are ways to get out of your predicament. First you must get a mail account with another Non-Yahoo mail provider. Then go to your profile, click "edit my info", scroll down to "email", under "use another email address" click "add an email address", enter your new mail address which is not registered with Yahoo. From now on Yahoo will use the new address for communication with you, it is also useful so Yahoo can send you a temporary password in case your current password ever causes problems.

    About your old mail account that you are trying to get rid of: after you gave your new address, just let the old address go dormant, after 4 months of inactivity Yahoo will delete it automatically!

    If however you would like to keep it and are just looking for possibilities to get rid of all (or most) of the spam, read on.

    #1: Yahoo has a spamguard filter, but only if multiple users report an address as spam will it be treated as such by the filter.

    You have a personal list for blocking addresses in spam options. Anything you mark as spam in Mail classic will be added to that list, in New Yahoo mail adding addresses to the list has to be done manually. If you ever receive anything from those addresses in the future, it will be deleted automatically, you won't even notice when you got some more crap from them. One problem though: the list of blocked addresses is limited to 500 and spammers often change their address. So you must sometimes delete some of the older blocked addresses to make room for new ones.

    Go to this link where everything is explained in detail:

    http://help.yahoo.com/us/tutorials/mail/mail/spamg...

    #2: The Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov) is supposed to help you eliminate spam mails. Forward spam to: spam@uce.gov, in the subject line enter something like "unsubscribe link results in more spam", "unwanted spam message", "no unsubscribe link" or something similar.

    When the FTC gets your mail, they will look into the matter and when they find out who the spamming source is, they will take legal actions.

    http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/spam/index.h...

    #3: Check Mailwasher, it helps to eliminate spam from your inbox...

    Set up your email account(s) in MailWasher and hit the "Check Mail" button. It then downloads all new message headers and displays message details alongside each one (priority, subject, from, to, etc.). Any email that MailWasher considers to be spam is highlighted for easy sorting.

    Two checkboxes are located next to each message header: "Delete" and "Bounce". If you click "Delete" the email will be marked for deletion, click "Bounce" and the mail will be marked for bouncing - a fake "address not found" email will be sent to the sender. Once you have decided what to bounce and delete, click "Process Mail" to get it done and your mail client launched for downloading all accepted emails.

    MailWasher has a "blacklist" and a "friends list" to enter good and bad email addresses. Addresses in the blacklist are marked for deletion, and addresses in the friends list will be marked as okay. Filters can be set to increase MailWasher's effectiveness. You can have email addressed to "undisclosed recipients" automatically deleted and bounced for example.

    Note: the program is free but limited to one email account, and doesn't include Hotmail support. MW Pro supports multiple mail accounts.

    http://www.computeractive.co.uk/vnunet/downloads/2...

  • Edd e
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Your yahoo account comes as a package and you can only delete the whole package that includes the following:-

    * Yahoo answers (your Q&As will stay in yahoo archives).

    * Flickr

    * Yahoo!Mail

    * Yahoo! Address Book

    * Yahoo! notepad

    * Yahoo! Briefcase

    * My Yahoo!

    * Any other area of Yahoo! that can only be accessed with your

    Yahoo!ID and password.

    To delete your yahoo account click this link.

    https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user

  • 5 years ago

    Once an account has been suspended, closed, or deleted it is gone forever, and can not be restored or reactivated. All information on the account is lost and you can not use the ID name associated with that account, either. You will have to open a new account with a different ID name. Sorry ...

  • 1 decade ago

    hi

    create one mail account , just for mail. make it personal one.. dont give anywhere in net.. use it ,just to your friends only

    use this id for answers..

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  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    hi my serach box only goes back for three days serahing for e mails in my yahoo account can you pls help thanks

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