Account Setup: BlackBerry Z30 - Official How To Demo

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Hotmail Users Report Blank Inboxes

By: David Murphy

• 01.01.2011

The ring of the new year has come with an unpleasant surprise for some users of Microsoft's Hotmail service. According to multiple postings on Microsoft's official support forum for Windows Live, a number of users are reporting that their entire Hotmail accounts have been completely deleted without warning.

However, it's not as if Microsoft has—for whatever reason—pulled the plug on the accounts themselves. Users can still log in sans issue. However, they arrive at empty inboxes: No custom folders, no messages in "Sent" or "Deleted," nothing. As one might expect, the abruptness (and unexpectedness) of the purge has left some of Hotmail's long-time users a bit in the dark.

"I have a Hotmail account since I remember myself on the web (1990's)," writes user Yair Gil. "I logged into it on 31th December 2010 at around 06:30hrs. Got an error message and a 'new' hotmail account with a first system welcome message. All previous mails in the inbox are gone and all the folders created are also not there."

There's been no indication as to how many Hotmail users are affected by whatever it is that's going on over on Microsoft's end. Reports of the email outage, for lack of a better term, have been surfacing on Microsoft's help boards since early this past week. According to moderators' responses, Microsoft's product team is allegedly aware of the issue and is actively looking into whatever it might be.

But that's about as specific as Microsoft has been with its explanation as to why inboxes—in their entirety—are being wiped out. As well, there's been no indication as to what—if anything—Microsoft will be able to recover. As many of those on Microsoft's Solution Center team are quick to point out, message recovery on Microsoft's end, post-deletion, doesn't always work as expected. A special exception might be made for widespread issues but, again, that's mere speculation at this point.

Normally, a user's Hotmail account goes up for automatic deletion if it isn't touched for a period of 120 days or within the first 10 days of the account's activation. At that point, all messages, contacts, and folders get tossed, but the email account itself remains eligible for reactivation for a period of 90 extra days—or 210 days in total.

We'll keep tabs on this story and update with any information from Microsoft's end as soon as its available.


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Setting Quotas in Lotus Domino 8.5

Setting Quotas


You can control the size of users’ mail databases by setting quotas. (For more information, refer to the Domino Administrator Help and search for the topic “Database size quotas”.)


1. Open the Domino Administrator, select the Files tab, and select the Mail view from the left-hand pane (see figure 57). Highlight the user's mail database for which you want set the quota.

2. Right-click on the user's database (here, Mike Black's) and select the Quotas option

from the drop-down list (see figure 58)

3. In the Set Quotas window, select the user’s mail database, and select the options “Set database quota to” and “Set warning threshold to” (see figure 59). In this example, we set the quota at 250 MB.


4. It's recommended to set an alert to the user, to let him know when the database is
about to reach the limit of the quota. To do that, you need set a value for the “Set
warning threshold to” option. We recommend setting the value at about 90% or less of
the quota limit.

5. To complete the process, click OK.




How can we automate the process for few hundreds of users?


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Setting up email quota in IBM Lotus Domino 8.5

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