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rock9995 had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:

Did Outlook Express or Hotmail do something differently with their
free accounts recently?

SUDDENLY ALL MY "SENT MAIL" OVER 30 DAYS OLD HAS BEEN DELETED FROM THE
OUTLOOK EXPRESS "SENT" FOLDER!!

They are not on Hotmail any more either.

We're talking about a thousand letters with all kinds of info on them
that I was saving!!!

Is this just my situation? My "paid" ($20/yr) account has not been
touched but a lot of my inbox letters no longer are in order or have
dates attached to them.

I've lost hundreds of hours of writing time with important info. Is
there anything I can do????

The free accounts have always cleaned out the sent folder eventually. It's
supposed to be every 30 days but sometimes they go longer than that.

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