Last Friday I finally succumbed and got a Smartphone !! It runs on Android and includes G-Mail. I added my Hotmail/Outlook account to G-Mail (I also access the account through Windows Live Essentials Mail). G-Mail synchronised with my Hotmail account and now my Hotmail Inbox is completely empty; everything seems to have disappeared.  What is going on ? I can't be the only person in the world to be running G-Mail on a mobile alongside Hotmail/Outlook.