I just signed on to my hotmail account, and all of my emails were gone! There was one new email in my inbox from hotmail staff that was a welcome email like I got when I first created my account... but all of my folders and emails were GONE. When I signed on earlier this morning they were all there and everything seemed normal. I still have all of my contacts. Any help?? Are my emails lost forever in space, or is there a way that I can get them back??

Well, I can't logon to Hotmail at all, so they may be working on the problem. If they are on their game they have backed up everything and you will get your e-mail back. These things have happened before. Luck to us all, jo

Use Yahoo, it's quicker. You also get more space, & Yahoo DO NOT EMPTY ANY OF YOUR FOLDERS. I have 3, 2 with 4mb & 1 with 6mb of email space (don't know why this is?). Also with MSN & Hotmail, my security settings limit the use of both so they can go shove it where the sun don't shine, same as any other site that DEMAND cookies & for you to lower your security, they only wanna spy on you. Is Ye Alreet

Before Yahoo Mail got popular. They used to give user 6mb space. Now due to the increasing popularity. It's down to 4b.

With Hotmail if you have not logged into your account say for more than 3 months. Hotmail effectively sees it as an unused account and deletes all email. Happened to me many times.

I've used hotmail for many years for the sites on the web that ask for an email address before you can continue. Although many of these sites accept fake addresses. However, for online purchases and such, I've always used hotmail. Recently, however, I switched to yahoo for several reasons. The main reason is that hotmail is fighting spam and viruses and there is a downside. Now they do not allow you to send or receive a bunch of attachments. This is from help within hotmail - Files with the following extensions cannot be added as attachments to Hotmail messages: .ade .adp .asp .bas .bat .chm .cmd .com .cpl .crt .exe .hlp .hta .inf .ins .isp .its .js .jse .lnk .mdb .mde .mdt .mdw .msc .msi .msp .mst .pcd .pif .reg .scr .sct .shb .shs .tmp .url .vb .vbe .vbs .vsd .vsmacros .vss .vst .vsw .ws .wsc Thank you hotmail but I don't need any help fighting viruses and spam. The reason I used hotmail was to go ahead and collect all the spam it wants. I have 7 comcast email address that I use for emailing friends and family and non-spam producing sites. I've never received a single spam message in the comcast accounts. I also used hotmail to temporarily store certain screensaver apps and some other apps that now you cannot do. I would store them there for a little while while doing a format and clean install or something of that nature. No more. Now I still use hotmail for collecting spam, but I use yahoo for attachments. I like yahoo better also because of the way it allows you to view jpegs before downloading them. So another vote for yahoo. As far as storage, the free account allows you 4 Mb. So I have about 10 yahoo accounts. 40 free Mb. Not bad. James.

Bravo, James.....I also favor Yahoo for the same reasons as you mentioned. And I also have numerous e-mail addy's with Comcast too. ~Tommyo