Why doesn't MSN Hotmail save my Sent Mail?

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They do save your sent mail, all you have to do is click the save this email button on the bottom of the email message box. Its a little box. You click it and a small check is installed and its saves it. Its just an paying attention that matters.

You could use the Firefox greasemonkey extension then write a small script to check the checkbox automatically, but that is a bit advanced.

Upgrade your hotmail to Windows Live Mail Beta, will save all of your sent-email automatically,no need to place the check any more

Windows Live Beta is very buggy - don't bother - it doesn't even show your fav. contacts!

Leo, you understated the fact that GMail saves your sent mail: that's the very gist of their promotional hype: Just about every aspect of the GUI focuses upon their philosophy that says you *ought* to save *all* your mail (the program's "Delete" button notwithstanding). After all, they say, whatever you want is just a search away. There's even a little counter when you log on that keeps ticking away, getting bigger and bigger, telling you how much space you have.

The main reason why I went ahead and switched all my main accounts to Google is they are responsive. In just over six months with the service, they have implemented three of my suggestions, and none of those were on their checklist polling users as to which features we'd most like to see.

The other upside to Google is that you can POP your account -- unlike Yay-Hoo, wherein you can only POP with the pay-for-it account. This means you can keep a local copy of EVERYTHING and don't have to worry about something happening on their end.

But that's among the least important reasons why I closed all but one of my pay-for-it Yahoo accounts -- and just one year ago, I was a veritable poster boy for Yahoo Mail. In fact, I'd close that one if it wasn't for the way pay-Yay-Hoo lets you spoof your e-mail address. Did Macromedia Support sell your spoofed addy to criminal spammers? No prob! Just delete it, cause you can create and maintain as many spoof addresses as you personally can handle.

As for Hotmail, I still cannot get over the bad taste in my mouth left by a test I conducted several years ago. I opened a Hotmail account and told my address to NOBODY. Within a day, the Inbox was almost full to capacity with spam. Now, that's not the case today, and I keep one Hotmail account open with my stylized pen name as the addy just on GP. Nobody knows the address and I never get any mail except the usual notices from Hotmail. But Hotmail's GUI -- indeed, the overall system -- just doesn't cut it for me. At all.

Take care!

Cliff W

"I opened a Hotmail account and told my address to NOBODY. Within a day, the Inbox was almost full to capacity with spam."

That's simply because the username you chose must have been a very common name, or a word in the English language.

I'm going to soon quit using hotmail altogether because even though I paid for their highest level of service, I still can't arrange for their system to automatically save my sent messages. Millions of hotmail users will soon fire hotmail too if they continue to take their customers for granted.

my friend made to me add on his email his email namroud@myway.com
and my email is screen_saver_2@hotmail.com how he make that i need ur help mr leo

is there anyway of saving my messages wen i send them, without clicking that box

dear sir,

i have a problem in my hotmail inbox, when i read or forward my emails they delete autmatically from my inbox and i never find them at all.
plz help me wt i to do .. ??

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