how to delete gmail, Y Mail accounts

You might have created an email address, which you no longer want to use. Here is how to delete Google, and Yahoo mail accounts.

Gmail Account:

1. Go to Settings (at top right of Gmail page).
2. Go to Accounts tab.
3. Click on Google Account Settings.
4. Click on Edit next to My services.
5. Now you can delete individual services like Gmail, Orkut, etc. or you can delete the whole Google account.

Yahoo! Mail:

1. Go to this page.
2. It will asks you to login.
3. Then it will show you consequences, and asks for password.
4. Click on Terminate this Account button. Thats it.

It will delete information in other services like Geocities, MyYahoo, etc. And cancel any paid plans if you have subscribed like Yahoo Mail Plus. Inform your contacts that you are going to delete the account.

Gmail as virtual hard drive

Turn your gmail account into a free online drive to backup your files, with Gspace firefox add on. It works by storing your files as emails. Even though you can do this yourself, Gspace provides ftp like interface.

As Gspace stores files as email attachments, they are limited to maximum size restriction of Gmail which currently is 20MB. As using this extension might be in violation with Gmail's TOS, you may create a dummy account for this purpose. So, go ahead and try it today.

How to embed images in Gmail

 

You may knew that Gmail won't allow you to embed images, tables, etc.  But, there is a work around.  You can drag the image (or table or whatever) to the compose window... and it will be embedded into your message.

You can do the same thing to create HTML signatures.