Very good info, Zack/Andy, . I guess the closest is inactivity. Iit could have been hacked, but am unaware of that. The account name is 10 letters, without anything else.
It seems odd that Google would delete an email account without any no warning or notice. On Google Voice, they are very clear and direct about deleting unused accounts On Tuesday, August 5, 2014 6:32:55 PM UTC-5, Andy wrote: > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Zack (Doc) <[email protected] <javascript:>> > wrote: > ... > >> Was it unused for a time? Google has a policy stating that dormant >> accounts (not used for 8 months) MAY be deleted I've never seen that >> enforced, but it is there as a policy. >> > > I *have* recently begun to see reports that Google has started to delete > dormant accounts. > > Another (remote?) possibility is that you are not remembering the name > XXXXX exactly. Maybe there was an extra letter or character or underscore > that you left out. Upper/lowercase and periods do not matter in Gmail. > > Google requires some minimum number of characters in the account name; I > think it's six. If the name you remember and are trying now is too short, > Google might tell you it has been taken, meaning it is effectively > reserved. If that's the case, you probably had to "pad" the name with > extra characters when it was created. > > Andy > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
