How To Sort Email In Windows Live Hotmail

Thanks for the information

I have clicked an email as unsafe by mistake and I want to retrieve it, cause I cant see it in my inbox, Junks or even on deleted email. could anyone help me how to recover this email, its very important

@ Abdul

Messages marked as unsafe is put in he trashcan. Depending on when you deleted, Windows Live Hotmail periodically empties the Deleted folder, so it may be too late.

Also, since you marked the message as unsafe you may want to remove it from your Blocked senders list so it does not get automatically deleted next time the email is sent to you. Click on Options \ More Options… \ Safe and Blocked Senders \ Blocked Senders.

Can someone please help. I have looked all over and i CANNOT sort my live hotmail because I do NOT have that menu. I have the SHOW MESSAGES instead. It's been like this forever from whatever computer I'm on.

I had a friend log on today and show me the Sort By menu which exactly where my Show Messages drop down menu is….

Where do I change this????

Thanks to anyone who can help.

Chris

@Chris

If you are not running the Classic interface (old Hotmail), you should have more options for sorting. You may want to contact Hotmail support and let them know you are having a problem.

I have a query that has been bugging me for a while with Hotmail Live. Now I sometimes neglect my inbox for long periods, and I also have subscriptions to quite a few sites, so I tend to have loads of unread subscription newsletters that I don't bother read mixed in with important messages that I do read.

Previously, I think there was a way to sort my inbox by unread messages, but for the sakes of me, I can't find out how to do this in Live. I have currently new 1489 messages and growing. The best idea wins a prize! Okay, maybe not a prize, but at least my gratitude.

Shaunny

Hi,

I have the same problem as well. The sort option has disappeared and all I have is show messages.

I have tried it on several computers, no joy. When I click refresh I can see the sort option appear and disappear. It is a probelm with Hotmail, must be a coding issue.

GM

Maybe you cannot sort your email because you have too many messages.
I enquired about this when I had problems with the old HotMail. Here is
the reply and a rather absurd justification from HotMail support:

Thank you for writing to MSN Hotmail technical support!
This message will tell you why the sort mail feature is not working.
If you have a different problem, reply to this message.

When a Hotmail account contains a certain number of messages, the sort feature is disabled. This is to help the overall performance of your account and other Hotmail accounts.

If your account contains more than 5,000 messages, the sort feature is disabled. Sometimes the sort feature is disabled when there are fewer than 5,000 messages, and this can be caused by the size of the messages and number of folders in the account.

To restore the sort feature delete messages from your account until you have fewer than 5,000 messages.

I am interested to hear from anybody above who can not sort based on the info S Bray provided. It seems, Microsoft has more rules in place than just the 5gig limit. Funny how Google(GMail) and Yahoo don't play these games with their customers.

I am now at 1809 unread messages in a space of a month. I should really unsubscribe from the likes of facebook notifications to totaljob requests, but maybe I like to keep them… I dunno, I haven't decided not to read some of them.

Microsofts justification makes no sense in my opinion. Wouldn't it be more beneficial if I could organise the mail that I don't read into one folder, and then be able to delete them? If every user had that option, they may not need to provide such an enormous amount of email storage, hence using resources to improve their email servers.

Maybe I need to use the premium service to get those benefits, but then again, why should I when other email clients allow me the benefit?

i never joined hotmail live but when i loged in i was useing msn live. i am here to complain about this i liked my old hotmail better. i would like to know how to get my old one back!!!!!!!

If your account contains more than 5,000 messages, the sort feature is disabled.
Why ? Ask Microsoft.

I was wondering where you can find the trash can, I have clicked an email as unsafe by mistake and I want to retrieve it, cause I cant see it in my inbox, Junks or even on deleted email. I now some said look in the trash can.

Hotmail classic would remember my prefered settings and use them as my defaults. For example I like to sort my emails by date, but with the oldest messages on top and the newest on the bottom. Now everytime I use hotmail live I have to reverse the order, very annoying.

Also I prefer to use plain text, but now it defaults to rich text. (with spell check, fonts, ect. How do I go back to having plain text as my default?

i have marked an email as unsafe by mistake, now i cant find it anywhere: junk, deleted, or inbox…what can i do?

I too have by mistake, marked an email message as "unsafe". It is completely gone and not in the trash can as some said it should be. Please help, where did it go?

i have marked an email as unsafe by mistake, now i cant find it anywhere: junk, deleted, or inbox…what can i do?

Yes I too have accidentally marked an important message as unsafe that was in my junk folder and it was deleted. I looked in the trash can and it's not there. This was important because it had to do with my business I work at home for and I needed to know what was in that email. How do I get it back?

windows live hotmail has blocked some attachment in this mail because they appear unsafe. I know is safe i wonder how to take this out in order download the attachment?

@Well

To un-block the attachment, open the message, and above the subject, look for:

"Attachments, pictures, and links in this message have been blocked for your safety." and click on the Show content link to un-block it.

To prevent this from occurring next time (for the same sender address), got to options and add the senders address to the 'Safe Senders" list.

If you have more that 5000 messages sorting is disabled. Same thing happened to me, I contacted Hotmail support and that is what they told me.

Did Hotmail support explain why Hotmail disables sorting if you have more than 5000 messages ? That is when you really need to sort your messages. Will this stupid limitation ever be fixed ?

pllzzzzzzzzzzz help me …what is the meaning of sorting e-mail plzze elaborate it??

@chant

Sorting means making reading messages more easier and organized.

By Date - view messages starting today to yesterday, to the day before, to the week before, to the month before, etc…

By From - group messages by same person

By Subject - group messages by the same subject

etc, etc, etc….

How do I recover mail accidentally checked unsafe?

@Crmp

See this article for un-doing email marked as unsafe in Hotmail

I have accidentally marked an email as "junk". Now I can't find it anywhere! Can someone tell me how to recover this email? Thanks!

@monique

Did you check the Deleted folder? I believe when messages are marked as "junk" they are moved to that folder.

How can I recover the ip address of an e-mail sent to me in windows live hotmail using windows vista?

I just did a little experiment. I had 568 emails in my “Magazines” folder that I have been “meaning” to read one day. I deleted them all and – what do you know – the full drop down came back and sort was reenabled. Has to be a “feature” MS built into HM that they hvn't had enough of us complain about. Considering the version I use I pay for it makes you wonder why I don’t just go to gmail. Maybe MS has folks reading these messages and they will fix it….but don’t hold your breath!!

@SecAdmin

Yep, it is a 'feature' to disable sorting that MS built into Hotmail. Check out reader S Bray comment (on October 15, 2007) above referencing an email received from Microsoft about this issue.

When replying to a message you have a small window now to reply in. As of before you could see the message in front of you that you were replying to and it was much more convenient. I was wondering if there is any way to go back to the previous form.

Is there a way to have as default the sort by date with the arrow up so that you read the oldest mail first instead of the latest. I really hate it see my latest first. You could change it on the old hotmail, but I can't find a way of changing it now.
Thanks

@David

Doesn't look like there is any way to change the Date sort from the default.

Once you mark an email as junk, it disappears into the ether, nver to be seen again. It's not in trash, or junk. It's just gone.

Tried what you said … I don't see the "Sort options: Date, From, Subject, Size" in the full version of Windows Live.

hotmail just sucks.

@Doppleganger

Read the comments above. If you are over the limit (what ever that is according to Hotmail) the sort option becomes disabled.

I too have been struggling with the sort issue. I have spent the last 2 nights deleting emails trying to get under the magic 5000 number. I am now under 4500, still no sort. I did a search under the help menu and came up with a little known rule that if you have over 50MB of messages, you will also have sort disabled. I still have 300MB+. If you only have 50 MB messages, who needs to sort? ERRRRR….

HI can someone help me with finding out how i can see the IP address of an email recieved, I have windows live hotmail, and i dont see that option its really frustrating…i have been trying to find but i cant, i checked all the options, but it doesnt show in the header.

ty.

@Dan

See the following article - View EMail Header Information In Windows Live Hotmail.

The above works with IE and FF 2.x. I have not figured out how to view headers using Firefox 3 yet.

ok - i'm at 426 MG and i can't sort either. what a pain in the rear. why can't i sort by size and delete the big ones? nightmare. maybe i'll switch to gmail.

How do I retrieve emails with blocked senders? I still want to keep the email address blocked, but want to know if the emails are stored somewhere and how to retrieve them

I could not sort in the old Hotmail and am having the same problem with Windows Live Hotmail. I got the same message from the help desk about having 5,000 or more messages [which I don't have]. I just don't see a solution to the problem.

I've written to the help desk complaining about the disabled sort function and after receiving the same standard reply As Bray, wrote back pointing out the basically user unfriendliness of the restriction. I got the following reply:

"If you want to continue to use the sort functionality, we recommend that you use one of the following methods:

1. Delete messages from your mailbox. The best locations from which to delete messages are the "Sent," "Junk," and "Deleted" folders.

Note: Messages that include attachments have the same approximate header value as messages that do not have attachments. Therefore, deleting larger messages, such as messages that include attachments, first will not reestablish your access to the sort functionality faster.

2. Set up access to your Windows Live Hotmail account from Microsoft Outlook or from Outlook Express (OE) to obtain additional sorting and searching capabilities.

Access your account through Microsoft Outlook 2003 or 2007 to obtain additional sorting and searching capabilities.

For more information and further assistance with this product, you may contact the Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Support Team at:

http://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?gprid=6998

3. Use Windows Live Mail program. This also enables you to sort your messages though you have more than 5,000 messages. For more information about this program, please visit the link below:

http://get.live.com/wlmail/overview

For assistance in downloading or using Windows Live Mail, you can contact their support team by visiting:

http://support.live.com/eform.aspx?productKey=wlmaildesktop&page=wlsupport_home_options_form_byemail&ct=eform

You wrote previously: Messages marked as unsafe is put in he trashcan. Depending on when you deleted, Windows Live Hotmail periodically empties the Deleted folder, so it may be too late.Also, since you marked the message as unsafe you may want to remove it from your Blocked senders list so it does not get automatically deleted next time the email is sent to you. Click on Options \ More Options… \ Safe and Blocked Senders \ Blocked Senders.

BUT the message I accidentally marked as unsafe when I meant to mark as safe is neither in my trashcan or in my blocked addresses. So do you have any other suggestions? Help please!

Thanks
steph

@Steph

Check out the following article - How To UnDo Marking Email As Unsafe in Windows Live Hotmail