Live mail has not worked well for me either. Opted out and went back to regular MSN hotmail. Live mail was filtering out all of my inbound e-faxes (although added as a safe sender), and I was getting tons of spam in my inbox. Typical MS POS app. Yahoo mail is much more reliable for me, even in its beta form. I had hoped MS would pull their collective heads out with Vista, but it looks like there's even more reason now to start thinking about Mac.