Just for email i think it is hard to beat Gmail
Gmail.com
Left Yahoo years go. We used to use their email and financial page.
Finally, just couldn’t take all the left-wing slant on EVERYTHING they were doing.
Went to gmail first and then went on to GoDaddy for a domain/email.
Rarely, do we go to Yahoo nowadays.
we switched to GMX.com
Since I got involuntarily sold to AOL, I’ve been reasonably happy with it. The send an occasional spam email, but do a pretty good job of filtering out most spam (and an occasional important email.
GMail is good if you don’t mind Google analyzing each one.
mail.com, or if you must gmail.com
Yahoo finance has gone from good to extremely terrible. I don’t bother to try to get it to work any more.
Hushmail.com
Free! Always good!
Outlook.com for me. Love it and it’s only $19.99/year ad-free.
I’m so tired of Yahoo’s liberal agenda, am thinking of switching too.
Wikipedia has free email compare page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_providers?wprov=sfla1
as you’ve probably figured out, yahoo email is THE worst free email provider out there, not to mention that yahoo is a rapidly failing company at this point anyway
with respect to big, free email companies, gmail is really hard to beat. personally, i think their webmail sucks, but you should be using IMAP with a client like thunderbird anyway, in which case who cares how bad webmail sucks.
If you deal with a company that offers "free" email, then you need to understand that YOU are the product. One way or the other: you're either going to be dealing with advertisements or information from your email is going to be scanned for the purpose of selling information to third parties.
The other point is that I would be very wary of providers with hosting located within the USA. We have seen as a result of the revelations from Snowden and via Assange that service providers within the USA are utterly compromised by IC and LE agencies. Not that any of us are doing anything wrong, but I personally do not feel comfortable with my information being grabbed...and I don't think any of us should feel comfortable with that point.
As for ordinary services, I agree that GMX is probably a pretty good choice. However, you need to recognize that even though their services are hosted offshore (Germany), your emails are going to be scanned and summarized for commercial purposes:
GMX may also disclose aggregate, anonymous data based on information collected from users to investors and potential partners. In such cases, only statistical information will be disclosed and personally identifiable data will be kept confidential. In case GMX is sold, the information collected from users may be transferred to the new owners. GMX may from time to time engage third parties, including its own subsidiaries and affiliated companies, to preserve, analyze or otherwise store or manipulate data received by GMX from its customers. In all such cases, third party service providers will be required to treat all such data with the same degree of care as GMX and they will be prohibited from disclosing such data to any other person or party, except as otherwise provided for in this Privacy Policy. Though we make every effort to preserve your privacy, GMX may need to disclose personal information when required by law, or to comply with a judicial proceeding, a court order, subpoena or other legal process served on GMX, in GMX’s sole discretion. GMX may also disclose information about you if we determine that for national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary.
As long as you fully understand this, you should be OK.
As for secure email providers, there are three that I can suggest:
Note that all three of these DO provide free trial accounts (severely restricted to their capability), but their main business line is with paid accounts.
Hope the above helps.
bump.
JoMa