Hotmail account not used but can not signup

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Ian

Hello,

I had no idea where to put this but I have outlook XP so thought this
was a good place to start.

I have gone through a list of prefered hotmail accounts to sign up to.
I find they no longer exist but they can not be signed up for.

I have sent test emails to them and they all come back with the
following.

It has the sending and target email then

Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox
unavailable

I alson get

Action: failed
Status: 5.2.3

Anyone know about hotmail status codes?

Also if hotmail accounts are abandoned how long is it before you can
signup for one?

I am just thinking if the accounts are linked to passport then that
may be why they are not released.

Thanks
 
I have gone through a list of prefered hotmail accounts to sign up to.
I find they no longer exist but they can not be signed up for.

I have sent test emails to them and they all come back with the
following.
<snip>
Diagnostic-Code: smtp;550 Requested action not taken: mailbox
unavailable
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Well, gee, because the accounts don't exist. If they existed and you
never bothered to login to use them, well, then don't complain when
eventually they expire which makes them inactive and eventually
thereafter when they finally get deleted. I don't know about the paid
MSN accounts, but the freebie accounts expire when you choose to no
longer use them for a long time. If you choose to deliberately cancel
an account, it remains defined but inactive for awhile so you could
change your mind and reactivate it before it actually gets deleted and
then becomes usable by someone else. Why are you trying to spam/slam
Hotmail accounts that don't exist or that are inactive (which, if they
really were your accounts, you could then simply reactivate)?
Also if hotmail accounts are abandoned how long is it before you can
signup for one?
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You cannot read Hotmail's own online help? It says in regards to
closing your Hotmail account (beyond you using their page to manually
close the account immediately):

"Your account can also be closed if you stop using it. If you don't sign
in for 30 days (or within the first 10 days), your account will become
inactive. At that time, any messages in your account will be deleted and
inbound e-mail will be refused. Your Passport will still function, and
your Hotmail e-mail name will be reserved. If your account stays
inactive for a further 90 days, it is permanently deleted, and your
e-mail name is no longer reserved."

The .NET Passport account is defined by whatever e-mail address you use
when you register and can be changed later. It is NOT dependent on you
having a Hotmail account. According to Passport's own online help:

"If you want more than one .NET Passport, you can register for as many
as you would like; however, each one must have a different e-mail
address."

So you can have as many Passport accounts as you want with each having
any e-mail address you want. According to the topic "What is Microsoft
..NET Passport?", I wouldn't think they could ever expire a Passport
account. One, they wouldn't know you killed the e-mail account used for
the Passport account (after using it to complete the registration) and,
two, it is used with Passport-enabled sites to relay your personal
information to them. But at this point I figured you could do the rest
of the digging through their online help.

All of the above was obtainable just by looking through the online help
already and publicly available for these services.
 
Well, gee, because the accounts don't exist. If they existed and you
never bothered to login to use them, well, then don't complain when
eventually they expire which makes them inactive and eventually
thereafter when they finally get deleted.
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Maybe I did not explain myself in terms you could understand.

I have never owned these accounts.

I have attempted to sign up to them and they are taken.

I have attempted over 3 years and have not been sending spam but just
a test email to 5 accounts every 6 months to determine if anyone is
useing them or not. I was wanting help to determine the status of the
abandoned accounts and info on how long before the accounts at hotmail
are held before being released.

You seem to have the wrong end of the stick. I don't spam but have a
legitimate interest in obtaining no longer used accounts for myself
and family.

You cannot read Hotmail's own online help? It says in regards to
closing your Hotmail account (beyond you using their page to manually
close the account immediately):
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The help does not seem to cover my particular issue. I am not wantign
to reactivate accounts but use hotmail addresses that have long since
abandoned or closed.
All of the above was obtainable just by looking through the online help
already and publicly available for these services.
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If that was correct then after 90 days the particular email addresses
would deleted 90 days of inactivity and over the 3 year period I would
have been able to register for myself.

I am not sure why you went to so much trouble to tell me you think I
am an idiot and complaining about my inability to read the help when
you clearly did not read my posting. Looking back some of my post was
ambiguios though.
 
It's nigh impossible to revive an account, even if it was yours in the first
place, and you have the passwords. I was about to re-format a laptop, so I
popped in an everpresent AOL CD, and attempted to regain a username from
about 8 years ago, when I was a kid using AOL 2.0. The mail to that SN gets
returned, but if you try to create it it says it's already taken, and if you
try to logon it says it's non-existent. Hotmail is the same way.

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