Hi,

Hotmail, or any other major email providers I know of, such as Yahoo, Gmail, AOL, etc, do not delete your emails unless at one time you did not login your account for 90 days or so, then they would deactivate your account and delete the emails. If you accidentally deleted those emails and you have checked the Trash folder and they're not there, then I'm sorry the emails are gone once they are deleted from Hotmail email servers.

Thanks,
-Viet

That's strange, as far as I know, email providers don't just automatically delete your emails if you use your email frequently. Also, I see that all major email providers will not restore deleted emails for you. I will leave your question open to other techs to see if they have any other suggestion. Thanks.

It isnt always true that you cant recover the mail..

There is a very slim possibility.. But its still a possibility..

That if you hurry and contact windows live support.. you can get them to save the mail.

Just because it gets deleted of your inbox, and account

Does not mean its deleted of their server..

Immediately.. go to the link below.

http://windowslivehelp.com/product.aspx?productid=1

click ask a question.. Tell them you are missing very important mail you didnt delete.. And you want to know if they can save it off their server before its permanently deleted..

If your very lucky, one of the support techs will see it and help you before its too late.

Now.. lets cover a reason this could have happened.

Your account could have been hacked..

Someone could be accessing your account and deleting the mails..

to make sure that is not happening.. Please immediately change your password, secret questions and answers, and also your backup email..

Do this now as well, As dissapearing email is suspicious account activity and often the first sign you have been compromised..

Unfortunately.. unless you were using outlook, or outlook express.. or thunderbird..

The idea is .. unless you were using a mail program.. something that handles your mail for you.. there would be no other record of it..

Hotmail wouldnt save all the emails from years ago.. as far as they are concerned. Time isnt an issue.

The only reason that they may have saved it,, is if it was deleted recently..

it would be on the server whether or not it was sent a year ago, or a day ago..

As long as it was deleted recently..

If you were hacked before. someone got you again

definitely change your password and secret questions immediately

If i worked for hotmail..I would be able to do so..

Unfortunately, It is illegal for me to break into their servers and do it myself..

sorry.. But i only break speed limits, not laws that would get me jail time.

I enjoy my couch too much to go to jail!!

Thank you for the compliments, and the feedback.. And Good luck with the account

Per my first answer to you, Hotmail would not be restore the emails for you as they don't have them on the email servers anymore.

Thanks,
-Viet