and that may be partly why you are having problems. But, I always receive mail from yahoo accounts and any contacts that I need to so far.

I have had one evening where hotmail gave an error message that I should wait until later to send messages. Unfortunately I couldn't save as a draft because of the same problem. I would just have to save it as a wordpad document or something until the problems are ironed out.

There used to be a way to contact hotmail support, but I must admit I don't remember being very satisfied with the results.