Or, if they do not, is there a way to tell if they're active. To make a long story short, I convinced a drunken friend (mostly for my own amusement, but, hey, i hope it works out for him) to email his 'one that got away' crush. After doing so with an email she used way back when, he brought up the point that the email account may still be receiving mail, but she may have stopped using it AGES ago. Is there any way to find out? Or does aol email expire if not used. It hasn't been returned to him as non-existent yet, and it's been hours, so it definitely exists, but is it being accessed.

Though I convicned him to do this mostly to see him squirm, I now feel somewhat bad and don't want him to have composed an email (albeit while intoxicated) and not get a response because the account is no longer being used.