how long does it take for an email account to be deleted
If the account stays inactive for a further 90 days, the account name is permanently deleted. Let's analyze that a bit. If you create a Hotmail account, and then don't use it for 10 days, your email and contacts are deleted. If you've been using your Hotmail account and for some reason fail to login for 30 days, your email and contacts are deleted. If you fail to login for 90 days the account name will be deleted - meaning that someone else could come along and create a new account, reusing that same name.