A little panicked because my e-mails are GONE and I found about a week's worth in my deleted in box; that makes it seem like they're now being automatically deleted, which would SUCK!!! Years of really important e-mails from about a week before now are gone... More

I've checked your account in our Support Control Panel and tried to recover your missing messages. Kindly view your e-mails and see if the messages that you are looking for were recovered. There may be a limitation to this solution. If the messages do not reappear... More

@ fearlessx88 Hotmail cleans up messages that have been deleted periodically. Once the e-mail has been deleted, we can no longer retrieve it. However, I still tried to engage additional resources to help retrieve the data. Sad to say, no messages reappeared. Currently... More

i just signed back into my hotmaill acct, and i dont have a single email from the past 8 years. where are they all? i need them back, they have information about things that i cant get anywhere else, as well as all the important events of the last 8 years documented... More

Thanks for the information Sharon, but this answer makes no sense at all. I have been using Outlook Express/Windows Live Mail for my Hotmail reader, as well as the website and my Windows based Smart Phone since 2000, and this has never been an issue. I have always had... More

As I have already indicated, yes, I do use multiple methods for accessing my Hotmail. browsers, smart phone and the Windows Live Mail client, however, I do NOT have any settings enabled to download or archive any mail from the servers to my local machine. As I also... More

Hello, I'm also in the same situation as others who have posted where I accidentally deleted an email that I wanted from my Junk folder. Therefore, it's not in my Deleted folder and I'm unable to retrieve it. Please help. My email is below. <removed_wl_rosalier>... More

@ tbellorin Hotmail cleans up messages that have been deleted periodically. Once the e-mail has been deleted, we can no longer retrieve it. However, I still tried to engage additional resources to help retrieve the data. Sad to say, no old messages reappeared. Currently... More

My account got hyjacked last week because of a Facebook App I had. My out of office was set on my hotmail account with a spam message so when my friends sent me a message they got the spam one as a reply. Also my sent messages dated back to August 2008 year were deleted... More

Hey. I recently have not been able to log into my email address, i emailed a member of the tech support team and he helped me get my email address back and reset my password, this was successful! I had many emails in my inbox and probably lots that were sent that were... More