Do you want to delete your exiting GMail account? Do you have some unused GMail IDs which you no longer use and want to get rid of them? Do you get lots of spam mails in your GMail account and want to delete it permanently?
I'm sure there are many ppl who face such problems and want to completely remove their GMail IDs for obvious reasons. If you are one of those, then do you know you can do it. Yes. You heard it right. Google provides a way to delete your GMail account. Just follow these steps:
1. Open following link:
2. Enter your username and password and it'll show following page:
3. Click on the checkbox and enter another e-mail address which you want to use to log into your Google account to access other Google services.
4. Enter your password and click on "Remove Gmail" button and your GMail account will be deleted within 2 business days.
Once your GMail account is deleted, you'll not be able to re-activate it or to retrieve messages.
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Omi Azad
Unfortunately they don't delete your mails. This is according to their policy, like you have some confidential mails and you no longer want to keep the mails and the account, once you delete them the mails will be on their server and if any government asks for the mails they will pass them through.
VG
^^ True. Thats why its advised always to clear your Inbox before deleting the account.
Riza
Interesting...
Must be careful.
Deyaa Addeen Fahmy Shedeed
thanks 4 datum.
ArpitNext
Hi VK ! I got your blog via Labnol and found it very nice !
Well , regarding your this post : I have already closed my many Gmail accounts before opting for the present !
Subscribed !
ArpitNext
Oops ! I mis-spelled ur name ! Its VG in my comment !
VG
Thanks Arpit and welcome to this site. I'm glad you like it.
Saurabh Gupta
Hi, dude
I m facing a problem these days n think u can help me out, plz help me.
I created my Orkut a/c wid my Y! email but now i not using Y! anymore n swithed to Gmail, now d prob. is i m not able to change d primary email add in my orkut a/c coz wen i try to do so it creates another Orkut a/c for my Gmail ID.
Can't i change it???
Saurabh Gupta
Hi, dude
I m facing a problem these days n think u can help me out, plz help me.
I created my Orkut a/c wid my Y! email but now i not using Y! anymore n swithed to Gmail, now d prob. is i m not able to change d primary email add in my orkut a/c coz wen i try to do so it creates another Orkut a/c for my Gmail ID.
Can't i change it???
VG
^^ No. You can't change the primary login ID in Orkut. You'll need to create new one. If you want to change the email ID which your Orkut friend see, then you can change it from Orkut Settings but your Login ID can't be changed.