Do dormant yahoo mail accounts get deleted?
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http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-NVb99sQ4RK5BVgIbxdcQdcRtfT8-?cq=1&p=29
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Yahoo! Archives messages under the profiles section of the install directory. If you have cleared the archives, those messages are deleted, although there are still remnants of user names throughout your system via logs, and registry entries.
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Deleting Your Account \nYahoo! members can remove their own accounts and account information from Yahoo!. Please follow the instructions below to initiate the deletion of your account. \nBy terminating your account, you will lose access to your Yahoo! ID, Yahoo! Mail, and profile names. We will also delete your account data and settings across the Yahoo! network. This includes any contents in: \n\nYahoo! Mail \nYahoo! Address Book \nHotJobs \nGeoCities \nYahoo! Briefcase \nMy Yahoo! \nYahoo! Groups \nFinance Portfolio \nany other area of Yahoo! that can only be accessed with your Yahoo! ID and password\nPlease be sure you want to delete your entire account as you will not be able to reactivate it once the account has been deleted. You are always welcome to sign up again for a new account.
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If you are on Yahoo, it takes about 90 days of inactivity for them to send you a reminder on the alternate e-mail address that you provided [ if you did provide one ] and another 30 days the account is deleted and the username freed.\n\nIf you're on GMail it's the same thing.\nIf you're on Hotmail, it takes 30 days of non-use for them to send you a reminder and is you don't re-use the account within 10 days then the account is deleted and username freed.\n\nIf you are hosting your own website and need to delete the e-mail address - there must be a dashboard, which allows you to make changes to your website setting - there you can delete the e-mail account.\n\nOf course, where you cannot access the setting - a call/e-mail to the service provider will help you delete your e-mail account.
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To remove your mail from Yahoo, you will have to delete your Yahoo account too. Here's what you can do:\n\nLong story short : https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user\nTwo ways to delete your Yahoo Account\n\n(1) Get it deleted by inactivity\n(2) Terminate your account manually\n\nFor the first method, just don't login to your account for 3 months, and your account gets deleted. But the waiting period is quiet long. It is a good policy by Yahoo, as it helps maintain an accurate number of users. I remember, when Hotmail used to brag about in its initial days about its huge userbase, most of its accounts were never used by users(who had registered themselves to get a taste of what email is called). Yahoo always gave an accurate picture. Also, for common usernames like amitgupta, emmacooper, etc which are never available (due to large no of people having these names), a chance is available to the new users to get such usernames from users who are inactive( which generally have to be registered as emmacooper1232005 due to unavailability)\n\nFor the second method, I gave you the link above. The advantage is that your account is terminated instantaneously. You can read the explaination at http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/edit/edit-23.html
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simply go to https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_use...\nor type "close account" in yahoo help for more information\nremember it will delete your acoount and mails completely!!and you can't access then later!!
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Use this link to delete an existing yahoo email account:\n\nhttps://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user\n\n\nNote that this will completely delete your account and you will not be able to access the mails again.\n\nRead this to understand this completely:\n\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/access/access-08.html\n\n\n\n\nTo create a new account, go to http://mail.yahoo.com/\nLook for \n\n"Don't have a Yahoo! ID?\nSigning up is easy.\n\nSign Up" \n\nClick on "Sign Up", and you will be aksed to provide information required for a new account, and new id and passwords. Fill that, and you are ready. Tell your friends about this new id, and DO NOT leave this new email address at web sites, do not use to forward mails to people you dont know. That is the best way to avoid getting spam mails.\n\n\nHowever, if you are deleting accoutns just because you don't like the yahoo id, consider creating an alias for your existing email id at\nhttp://edit.yahoo.com/config/list_alias?.src=ym\n\nGetting alias would not change anything for the acocunt, you will still get mails in the same account.
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you need to send an email to support@yahoo.com from the account in question, asking them to have it deleted.  They will followup with a confirmation that you have to activate in order to complete the deletion.
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An account is considered to be "dormant" after four months of non-use.\n\n"Dormant accounts are de-activated at the end of four months. A dormant account is one which has not been logged in to over a four-month period, regardless of whether or not email has been received in the account during that time.\n\nOnce an account has been de-activated, we cannot retrieve any of the information that was formerly stored in it."
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It is a new feature\nall sent e-mails will be saved except for those which you will delete.\n\nXLMan
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Hotmail has a 30-day inactivity rule, where your account gets deactivated after 30 days of inactivity (meaning that you haven't logged in for 30 days).  When the account is deactivated, all stored items are deleted.\n\nAfter 90 days of inactivity, the account is permanently deleted & may becomes available for new users.
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Your yahoo account will be freezed if you didn't access it for more than three months. As in your case, it's 5 years. Yahoo! must have deleted your account from their database. You could create a new account with that old username. Try it.
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Most likely, people you share a computer with can't look at emails you've deleted;provided you never reveal your password and always log out of your account after using it.\nHowever,be aware that even after emptying your trash folder,your emails are not permanently deleted.They are still stored on someone's server,whether that's Yahoo,Hotmail or Google.From what I know,they are required by law to keep logs for a certain period of time.Basically,everything you do or say on the internet can be traced back to you.\nhttp://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/03/17/1548216.shtml
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Yeah, stop using them and the account will automatically expire after six months. You can also manually delete your entire Yahoo account.
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When your account gets deactivated, all your stuff including mails, group settings, etc get deleted and even your username. The only thing you can do is open a new account on the same user name. Retrieving a deactivated account is not possible. This is even mentioned in the following link :\n\nhttp://help.yahoo.com/help/us/edit/edit-23.html
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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.’\n\nYour account is now gone.
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Nope, plain and simple.  Once you delete a YAHOO profile, all the information is gone, unless you had added info in the address book.  Check the email account of that profile you might get lucky.  Deleting a profile is not the same thing as deleting an account.  Deleting an ACCOUNT would disable your email account, whereas deleting a profile would mean your deleting one of the five allowable profiles, an account is allowed to have.\n\nSo my question is do you know the difference between the two?  If your a newbie you might not be as familiar with all options an account is allowable.