Hotmail account emptied! WTF!?


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I would just move to gmail as they offer pop3 access which you can access from your desktop with Thunderbird or such and you can get Mozbackup to store all your emails and settings into a password protected container so to say. I love having my own mail server even though I have my gmail set to forward any emails I havent switched over yet to it. I feel is more controllable than any free service and you can get dedicated email space for little to nothing and they are often the most reliable.

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Judging by the message, it is the free account... Up until a few months ago, it was 2MB... How much info could you have had in those 2MB? Drama queen...

Nope, we've had 250 MBs of storage for quite a while here. (or did that increase to 2 GB? I forgot.)

@OP: In the future, you should use a program such as Outlook Express or even Windows Live Mail Desktop to download the messages locally.

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Judging by the message, it is the free account... Up until a few months ago, it was 2MB... How much info could you have had in those 2MB? Drama queen...

A few months? Try a couple of years.

I switched to gmail shortly after it was announced in April 2004. I think I got one of the then coveted invites around June/July and I haven't looked back since.

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@OP: In the future, you should use a program such as Outlook Express or even Windows Live Mail Desktop to download the messages locally.

Never knew that I could copy my messages like that. If I get all my mail back then I definately will back em up on hard drive and CD.

Still no reply from MSN. They dont operate on weekends? Looks like I have to wait until monday :unsure:

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Never knew that I could copy my messages like that. If I get all my mail back then I definately will back em up on hard drive and CD.

Still no reply from MSN. They dont operate on weekends? Looks like I have to wait until monday :unsure:

Don't worry! Thing's will work out.. =)

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1) Try and get in DIRECT contact with MSN. - They will have lots of backups.

2) Switch to Gmail.

I'm not trolling with the gmail comment, I'm serious, the whole account closing/deactivating thing just doesn't happen with google.

I had a gmail account from day one (well end of April 2004, so almost day one) and had about 4,000 messages in it and was using it as my primary email account. Then one day in October 2005 I went to login and it said I got my password wrong. I tried about 100 times but it kept saying my password was wrong. I requested a new password and it said no account existed. I thought it was just a little problem as gmail was beta and would try later. I tried the next day and the same thing. I contacted google and they said said they had no record of the account and that was it. so i lost loads of emails and the account. the worst bit was losing the account as I had everything setup from that account, Amazon, etc. all went there and it was a nightmare to get it all changed to another account again. As much as I like Google they were no help and I learnt my lesson not to use free services. I no pay ?20 a year for my email provider and they are legally bound to backup my email, etc. This is easily worth it, I spent about 60 hours getting that whole gmail problem sorted. My time is worth a lot more than ?20 so I decided to go with a professional company. Free email services are great however you have no SLA with them so they don't care when you have a problem. For people who use their email for important things a free service should be avoided IMHO.

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For those of you claiming that Gmail does not close inactive accounts you are wrong and obviously havn't read the Gmail TOU:

"Account Inactivity. After a period of inactivity, Google reserves the right to disable or terminate a user's account. If an account has been deactivated for inactivity, the email address associated with that account may be given to another user without notice to you or such other party. For more information on how Google deals with account inactivity, please consult the Program Policies."

This has happened to 2 of my accounts thus far.

As for the problem at hand, you should have backed everything up, to bad mate.

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I know its been said before... but why the hell would you keep such important things on a e-mail server.

Next time invest in a flash drive... they are pretty cheap.

Mine wasnt really important, I would have thought messenger would have kept the contacts though.

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For those of you claiming that Gmail does not close inactive accounts you are wrong and obviously havn't read the Gmail TOU:

"Account Inactivity. After a period of inactivity, Google reserves the right to disable or terminate a user's account. If an account has been deactivated for inactivity, the email address associated with that account may be given to another user without notice to you or such other party. For more information on how Google deals with account inactivity, please consult the Program Policies."

This has happened to 2 of my accounts thus far.

As for the problem at hand, you should have backed everything up, to bad mate.

Google's is 9 months rather than 30 days.

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Jesus Christ!!! How many people decided to post about the 30-day rule after the guy had already said he uses his account at least 3 times a week... i've noticed this with alot of threads on here lately, people reading only a small part and then posting CRAPP!!!!!!!!

On the subject of e-mails it's GMail all the way! never liked hotmail from day 1, and still don't...

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I had a gmail account from day one (well end of April 2004, so almost day one) and had about 4,000 messages in it and was using it as my primary email account. Then one day in October 2005 I went to login and it said I got my password wrong. I tried about 100 times but it kept saying my password was wrong. I requested a new password and it said no account existed. I thought it was just a little problem as gmail was beta and would try later. I tried the next day and the same thing. I contacted google and they said said they had no record of the account and that was it. so i lost loads of emails and the account. the worst bit was losing the account as I had everything setup from that account, Amazon, etc. all went there and it was a nightmare to get it all changed to another account again. As much as I like Google they were no help and I learnt my lesson not to use free services. I no pay ?20 a year for my email provider and they are legally bound to backup my email, etc. This is easily worth it, I spent about 60 hours getting that whole gmail problem sorted. My time is worth a lot more than ?20 so I decided to go with a professional company. Free email services are great however you have no SLA with them so they don't care when you have a problem. For people who use their email for important things a free service should be avoided IMHO.

I had that same thing happen to me about 5 months ago. The crazy thing was I'd logged into gmail just the day before with no problems.

I ended up loosing a ton of registration codes for programs I'd purchased and other important emails.

I won't ever touch gmail again. Google was absolutely no help when I contacted them about it.

Honestly, the best thing to do would be to use an email with POP3 access and download it through a desktop program you can backup with (Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc)

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I had that same thing happen to me about 5 months ago. The crazy thing was I'd logged into gmail just the day before with no problems.

I ended up loosing a ton of registration codes for programs I'd purchased and other important emails.

I won't ever touch gmail again. Google was absolutely no help when I contacted them about it.

Honestly, the best thing to do would be to use an email with POP3 access and download it through a desktop program you can backup with (Outlook Express, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc)

Uhhh...you mean like gmail?

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how do you backup messages on hotmail and gmail to harddrive, i want to make a full backup now. please anyone thanks

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1) Try and get in DIRECT contact with MSN. - They will have lots of backups.

2) Switch to Gmail.

I'm not trolling with the gmail comment, I'm serious, the whole account closing/deactivating thing just doesn't happen with google.

Then how come after I first got it, used it daily for about 3 months and didn't sign in for about 4 days, everything was gone?

Happens with them too. Don't know how often, but it does.

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Never knew that I could copy my messages like that. If I get all my mail back then I definately will back em up on hard drive and CD.

Still no reply from MSN. They dont operate on weekends? Looks like I have to wait until monday :unsure:

You need Hotmail Plus to store your e-mails locally. It's ?14 a year. My dad uses it because of the seriousness of the account.

  • Exemption from the 30-day rule
  • Store e-mails anywhere
  • No ads!
  • Erm, other things...

Switch to Gmail.

To all of those who say Switch to Gmail, STFU!!! He asked for a solution to his f***ing problem, not some marketing pitch for a rival e-mail client!:angry:: :crazy:: :angry::

Would you say the same in this situation?

Guy 1: My mate was working, and slipped on his Black and Decker drill, mangling his hand. He wrenched out the drill out of instinct and made it much worse. He's in a terrible condition, both physically and emotionally. I just don't know what to say to him.

Guy 2: Switch to Hitachi.

Jesus Christ!!! How many people decided to post about the 30-day rule after the guy had already said he uses his account at least 3 times a week... i've noticed this with alot of threads on here lately, people reading only a small part and then posting CRAPP!!!!!!!!

QFT.

Oh, and BTW, we have 2GB nowadays.

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what do u mean 'store email locally' ?

is this the pop3 thing they charge for now?

never had a problem with gmail. constantly clean my inbox and all folders. then snyc them with WLM Desktop ;)

Hotmail (WLM)- Never keep anything important on there, just my contacts. also syncd with WLM Desktop- had premium service at one time

Yahoo! great!. worth the premium service (no ads) even tho i dont have it. sucky spam filters.

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