– Select “Settings” from the Hotmail home screen

– Click on “Accounts and Import”

– Choose “Import Mail From Another Account”

– Enter your old Hotfire username and password

– Hotmail will then retrieve all the messages from your old account

– Click “Finish” and you’re done!

You will keep them forever as long as you log in once per year. Did you ever connect to the account using outlook installed on your desktop and archived the mail to a pst file? That would be one reason the mail would have been deleted if you use the account regularly.

You can recover deleted emails from Gmail that were stored on the server and not just those in your trash folder. … Click on the blue search button at the bottom left of the search box, then click on all available or previously deleted messages across all devices to be shown.