Install Windows ME, and use Outlook Express!!!
(yes.... that WAS a (bad) joke lol)
Contact me on freepmail and I can add you to my domain. :) I think I have about 600 e-mail addresses left.
If you shared some of the reasons you want to change, it might help focus the suggestions. I use Gmail, yahoo, and outlook.com, and prefer Gmail. Yahoo is by far the worst (slow, downtime). Outlook.com is pretty nice, but if you are tryign to get your mail out of teh hands of big corporate prying eyes, you might as well stay with Gmail.
I use a Microsoft Live.com account - never given me any trouble.
Outlook.com (Microsoft) is a close second to Gmail.
Hushmail.com is free, secure and quick. From Canada, eh!
Before writing off Gmail for good, consider that it is among the very best in spam filtering. You may regret moving to another ‘free’ service that doesn’t do nearly as well.
I’ll go along with others who complain about Yahoo Mail. I’ve noticed that, whenever I get a suspicious message that purports to originate from one of my ‘friends’ but turns out to be spam or a phishing attempt, it’s nearly always been from a friend who uses Yahoo.
Just one guy’s opinion...
Check out free internet email provider at www.mail.com.
I’ve used it for about 10 years as secondary but made it my prime email provider when I closed out my old internet provider and lost that email access.
I echo what the poster said above, take a look at hushmail.com.
They are ad-free, claim they do not scan your e-mails, and you can encrypt the messages you send. They offer free accounts with some restrictions (max storage limit, and you must log in every 3 weeks or your account becomes inactive). They also offer pay accounts with no restrictions.
If you can read German, check out http://www.gmx.net .
I signed up for an email account years ago. Then, their website was in English and German. After a while, they dropped the English part.
I still have the email account and can figure out how to delete old email, etc.
You get what you pay for. That said, Go-Daddy is very inexpensive and their anti-spam WORKS. You can use webmail or download via POP3 or IMAP to the mail client of your choice. You can set up your own domain also.
We use inexpensive POP3 and IMAP for our personal stuff and a hosted exchange solution for our business. We’ve never had an outage of any kind. We buy enough, so that the grandchildren can have e-mail addresses instead of using gmail or something like that.
cM Client is an excellent free mail client that has the look and feel of Outlook, but behaves much better with IMAP.
I use outlook.com
Yandex mail offers a good free email service. Has everything most folks want without a lot of garbage.
I use outlook.com, which I forward to and can dump if it ever becomes polluted. It’s free and easy.
Thanks everyone for your comments.
DO NOT USE YAHOO!!!
It is unreliable and a big mess of modifications that dont’ work.