Spam mail not getting through

[MalteseFalcon]

I seem to be having a disconcerting problem, I have signed up for around 6 sites/Forums since Christmas, all of them require activation to be able to use the site. I get no emails through in Live Mail, I check through the browser and the spam folder is empty. Nada. I changed the settings to turn the spam filter off but it hasn't helped.

Any advice on this please? Thanks.

[Taf]

An email forwarding service (bigfoot) was sending me mail which was either blocked or returned as spam by VM. I had set the webmail option to "move messages to the SPAM folder" but none has appeared there.