How do I resolve my Hotmail email problems?

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In Hotmail mail options you can set up a filter to immediately delete email from particular senders.

I am having problems sending and receiving e-mails. Sometimes they never get there and I do not get a postmaster e-mail either. Hotmail is very inconsistent. Also, sometimes I do not receive them. This is very frustrating and unprofessional. Plus, I cannot contact MSN? Why does this company exist? How can they advertise a service and not follow thru? I am ready to contact the Better Business Bureaugh and state my complaint and oppinion about hotmail.
Please respond.
Maria Kane

Well, Hotmail is a free service, so as for customer service, which I agree is pretty much non-existant, you're getting pretty much what you pay for. More on that here: http://ask-leo.com/are_free_email_services_worth_it.html

The most common cause for email not reachine its destination is spam filtering on the recieving side. That will often cause email to disappear silently. More on that here: http://ask-leo.com/why_is_my_mail_to_this_person_not_getting_through.html

I am not receiving my emails. Why could this be please.

I have been waiting for two very important mails and one not so. When I contacted the senders all said they had sent and would resend. Not received first or second emails but strange I can send emails which get through. What is going on with Hotmail, there is no helpline contact so no way of finding out the problem. What are we supposed to do, wonder if anyone can help.

Sheila: there are so many possibilities, it's hard to say wihout a lot more data. I'd start with this article: http://ask-leo.com/why_am_i_not_getting_the_email_i_signed_up_for.html

Marina: same advice for you.

When ever I send an email, They never appear in my SENT file, How do I fix this so that they do and so that I can refer back to past emails that I have sent to people??
Thanks,
Travis
Charleston, SC
USA

Each time you send an email you need to check the box that says "Copy Message to Sent Folder ".

if you have MSN Messenger with a free HotMail account, if you can ---- access your contacts list thru the *MSN Messenger window headings* then

my advise would be to export your contacts list to another account ( say a Free Yahoo account, address book )

or do it manually eg; * swipe * --HiLight your list then click COPY then Paste to notepad, [not M.S Word] then rename the notepad to Hotmail Contacts or something similar so you can find it again

-- then save that somewhere you remember, [or even on the Desktop]

so you can still get back to your Hotmail friends ETC: thru another account

((( Just in case HotMail does shut you out altogether ))) & filthy rich Microsoft want you to PAY for yet another of their services

it may take a bit of editing in notepad ( it just depends on what you have named each email address )

but, by doing it that way doesn`t loose all your Hotmail Contacts

below are some free web based ones

G Mail ( Beta) has over 2626.880 Mb of storage
www.runbox.com/
FastMail.FM
address.com
aussiemail.com.au
bluebottle.com
boardermail.com
bolt.com
canada.com
animail.net
moose-mail.com
snail-mail.net
whale-mail.com
wildmail.com
cashette.com
centralpets.com
dbzmail.com

& many many more -- guess we don`t have to stick to Hotmail ever again
Cheers from ezz

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