How do you get rid of an email address

If you don't want your Gmail address and emails anymore, you can remove them from your Google Account. Deleting them won't delete your entire Google Account.

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What happens when you delete your Gmail service
Delete Gmail
Fix problems
Can you permanently delete an email address?
How do I permanently delete an old email address?
How do I delete one of my email addresses?

What happens when you delete your Gmail service

Your emails and mail settings will be deleted.
You can no longer use your Gmail address to send or receive email. If you change your mind, you may be able to get your Gmail address back.
Your Gmail address can’t be used by anyone else in the future.
Your Google Account won’t be deleted; only your Gmail service will be removed. You’ll still have your activity and purchases you made on Google Play.

Delete Gmail

If you use Gmail through your work, school, or other group, contact your administrator.

Before deleting your Gmail service, download your data.
On your Android phone or tablet, open your device's Settings app
Google
Manage your Google Account.
On the top, tap Data & privacy.
Scroll to "Data from apps and services you use."
Under "Download or delete your data," tap Delete a Google service. You might need to sign in.
Next to "Gmail," tap Delete
.
Enter an existing email address you want to sign in with and tap Send verification email. This email can't be a Gmail address.
To verify your existing email address, you get an email at the existing email address. Until you verify the new email address, your Gmail address won't be deleted.

Fix problems

You want to recover your Gmail address & emails

If you change your mind, you may be able to get your Gmail address back. If it’s been awhile since you removed your Gmail service, you might not be able to get your emails back.

Go to Gmail.
Follow the steps on the screen.

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The first time you open the Mail app on your iPhone, you may be asked to set up an email account—just follow the onscreen instructions.

To add additional email accounts, do the following:

Go to Settings
> Mail > Accounts > Add Account.
Do one of the following:
- Tap an email service—for example, iCloud or Microsoft Exchange—then enter your email account information.
- Tap Other, tap Add Mail Account, then enter your email account information.

MLStrand56 asked the Answer Line about something that should be easy: How do you delete an email address in Gmail?

This is a much bigger problem than it should be. Here’s why:

Gmail remembers two different types of addresses. First, and most obvious, are your contacts–the people, companies, and organizations that you have intentionally added to your address book. The other addresses are those that you’ve sent email to but never entered as a contact.

In many ways, this is a nice convenience. You’ve never bothered to add this person to your contacts, but you can still start typing their name or address and up comes the right selection.

But it can also be a problem. You start typing in a friend’s name and up come two addresses–the one from your contact list and a dead one you haven’t intentionally used in years. And you pick the wrong one.

So how do you delete a contact that isn’t really one of your contacts? By pretending that you’re about to turn it into one:

Click Gmail in the upper-left corner of the Gmail Web page, then Contacts from the pull-down menu.

Start typing the name or address in the search field. When the unwanted address appears, select it.

This will bring up the page where you can turn this person into a real contact. You can add or change the name, address, a birthday, and even a photo.

But that’s not what you’re here for. Instead, pull down the More menu near the top of the window and select Delete contact.

It’s possible that if you start typing the name into a message’s To field immediately, it will still come up. But if you wait a couple of minutes, it won’t. And it won’t ever again.

There is one variant to this: When you select the name, you might find that the unwanted address is one of several for a real contact whom you want to keep. You just want to get rid of that particular address.

In that case, don’t select Delete Contact. Just click inside the unwanted address field, press CTRL-a to select the entire address, then press DELETE.

Read the original forum discussion.

Contributing Editor Lincoln Spector writes about technology and cinema. Email your tech questions to him at , or post them to a community of helpful folks on the PCW Answer Line forum. Follow Lincoln on Twitter, or subscribe to the Answer Line newsletter, e-mailed weekly.

Can you permanently delete an email address?

Deleting a Gmail account is permanent. After going through the process, all of your emails and account settings will be erased. You will no longer be able to use your Gmail address to send or receive emails, and the address will not be made available for anyone else to use in the future.

How do I permanently delete an old email address?

Delete the old email account For Gmail accounts, head to Google's “Delete Services” page, which may require you to sign in. Then click the trash can icon next to Gmail; Google will walk you through the steps from there. For Yahoo, follow these instructions, and take these steps to delete a Microsoft email address.