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If your current Hotmail account does not have the 250MB limit (been opened within 30 days) then this might not work for you.

Check out Mail Beta.
Then tell us how to make it better.
We figure that as a Hotmail user, you know as much as anyone about how an e-mail service should work. That's why we want you to check out Mail Beta, a new version of the service that we're working on. If you accept, you will be among the first to see some very cool new features, and you can tell us exactly what you think of them: what you love, what you hate, and what you'd rather see.

More about what Mail Beta can do for you:

Reading Pane See a preview of each message (just like Microsoft Outlook), and cruise from e-mail to e-mail without reloading a new page each time. One click shows you a message's full contents.
Info Bar The Info Bar is a new weapon to help you zap junk and "phishing" e-mail off the face of the earth. ("Phishing" is when someone is trying to fool you into giving up your personal info with an official-looking message).
Address AutoComplete Start typing a name and "pow!" up pops a list of possible recipients from your contact list. Click on the one you want and you're done.
Expanded Storage Your Mail Beta inbox will have 2GB (2 gigabytes) of storage. That's a lot. Enough for 1,000 photos of 2 MB (megabytes) each, for example.
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Lillianlake:I lost 4 days email once in Beta from all my folders, and here is what I received from Beta support:
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Thank you for contacting Windows live support, my name is D******. Your service request has been returned to us and here are the results.

Unfortunately the engineers were unable to retrieve any lost emails. We do not have the ability to recover emails as easily as we do on the old Hotmail system. We do apologize for the inconvenience to you.


Sincerely,

Windows live support
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