Are you stating that you see messages in the Sent Items folder at
www.hotmail.com which do not show up when you open OE to your Hotmail Sent
Items folder (not the Local Sent Items folder)?

Yes.


Do messages in the Inbox at www.hotmail.com show up when you open OE to
your Hotmail Inbox?


Yes there seems to be no problem with downloading the Inbox. Indeed I wish I
could stop the download deluge every time I reinstall xp and recofigure OE
(files become doubled, for one thing; I want only the saved .dbx files to be
configured, as in these I have deleted spam) while keeping them safe on my
server.


Is this sudden, new behavior or an ongoing problem?

No, I have had this pattern for years. Even stranger is that even when I
save the .dbx files, whether by OE Quick Backup or, as I recall, by other
means, there's always a group of mails covering a period, always just before
the time of the backup, that are not saved. On this occasion there were many
months of Sent Items files that I was saving, and no large periods between
occasions when I have sent messages either by Hotmail or the other account
(UK2) I have on OE (in fact I have been using both a great deal recently).
But the Hotmail backup for some reason didn't save the last 2 weeks' worth
of sent items and the UK2 didn't save the last three days of sent items. The
messages were definitely recorded in OE before the backup, though.
Cheers.


--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

Johnny wrote:
I notice my Hotmail Sent Items folder does not download from webmail to
OE. Is there any way to rectify this?
Cheers.