I had some old lycos accounts but after they deleted those accounts without warning to switch to a pay per account system I wouldnt trust them with a paid account either.
I really havent tried much else in 20+ years, how about you?
First ... get your own domain registered an then create your own permanent email..emaile address should be transferable as a phone number to what ever service you use.
You can then have it forwarded to any service you use
While you’re exploring updating or changing your email provider you may wish to take a look at email clients vs. webmail.
Most of us use webmail these days, largely due to its simplicity. All you need is access to a web browser and access to the internet and you can send & receive messages.
But what if you want more control over your personal emails?
When you use a web-based email provider all of your content (emails, address books, calendars, etc) are hosted on the providers servers - you’re just remotely viewing it. When you use an email client such as Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird you are actually downloading the content to your local hard drive. Once the content is downloaded it no longer resides on the server and access to it is accomplished locally.
There are trade-offs that must be considered when configuring the sort of experience you wish. Setup for Outlook or Thunderbird is a bit more complicated than web-based email. Archiving and storage of email folders (where your downloaded emails live) requires dedicated hard drive space and should include some sort of backup strategy.
The convenience of web-based email comes at a price as well. What happens if you can’t access an email containing time sensitive material because of an internet outage? I can still access all of my delivered mail whether I have access to the internet or not.
Recently a friend came to me and complained that she couldn’t get logged into her Juno webmail. We tried everything including several calls to their (worthless) tech support but were unable to reset her password. All of her emails, all her addresses, all the content is gone.
Microsoft changed their protocols for email interoperability - now I can’t use their application (Outlook) unless I upgrade to the newest version (Office365). So I shifted all of my email accounts to Thunderbird.
It definitely wasn’t painless but I am still in control of my email.
Never had an issue with Hotmail. Yahoo used to be good, but the advertising they stick you with now is annoying. I hate Gmail. My wife has it and has all kinds of trouble with it.
Whatever is causing you to get locked out, you need to deal with that, because you’re going to probably end up dealing with it with whatever email host you choose. Are you forgetting your password?
Proton mail. Nothing else.
With “free” you get what you pay for.
Don’t use the unreliable servers the government uses. They have very inconvenient failure rates and might get wiped, like with a cloth.
I started back in prehistoric days with a free HOTMAIL account. That automatically switched to outlook at some point, but my addresses (Personal and business) remained the same. If it works, don’t fix it.
Yahoo
One through a VPN, which all of us should have at this point. I use TorGuard at $50 annually, with email thrown in at no cost.
All encrypted. No logs. Permanent deletion when emails are deleted.
Why would GMail lock you out?
I’ve been using Hushmail for five years. No complaints.
https://www.hushmail.com/how-it-works/
Proton Mail. You can get it with a free VPN and with encryption.
You need to make a complicated password but it does not lock you out because you are "signing in from another location".
Not fancy, just works.
Reagan.com
I have used Mail.com for about 20 years. It is an internet based free email service. It also has a premium version that has no ads. I’ve never tried the premium version because the ads dpm]t bother me.