Privacy matters ... Alternative to Gmail ?

In terms of storage capacity and speediness, in my mind, at the moment, nothing equals Gmail ...

 

ICMail.Net

https://mail.icmail.net/

 

Wow! Has anyone looked at inbox.com lately? They have seriously undergone some changes! Very nice interface, 5GB FREE storage to USA, Canada & UK (2GB everywhere else), document storage, organizer, note-taking, calendar, photo album -- all free. I signed-up and, so far, am very happy. This is quite a change - VERY nice!
http://www.inbox.com/products/email.aspx

 

I do not communicate with anyone using GMail. Since it almost impossible to determine if someone is using GMail...I have almost given up using email. I think Google has killed email for anyone concerned about their privacy.

Encrypting is a silly thing for you to suggest. Do you really think everyone is going to start doing that? It would take everyone doing it for Google spying to be brought to a halt. It matters not if I encrypt and I am able to talk my recipient into doing it also. What about the mail that someone sends me from my own ISP and I reply and they reply from GMail. UGH. Google has my mail forever. That is totally unacceptable. So, I have been forced by all those who think privacy is silly to basically stop using email. Google has no cookie from me, I use Customize Google, and a Hosts file to stop Google Analytics at my home site, I use no Google Toolbar or anything of Google's except their search engine and I use it without any enhancements that would require a cookie. Yet all my efforts are for naught if someone with GMail, who has emailed me from their ISP account, decides to pick up all their mail in their GMail account .

 

Ever the one for drama.
No one is forcing you to do anything.

If you were on the ball you would just fire off an email to what friends and family you have asking them to please contact you through their ISP's email.

No rants or lectures just simply asking them to not use gmail.

I would bet 90%+ would comply.

Now how hard is that?

 

We were talking about privacy, if there's one thing that bothers me it's the fact that most of these services, related on this thread, have a vague privacy policy, and keeps informations about us even after the account is closed/deleted.

That's a good reason we should not sign them.

And most of them don't have any option for you to delete your own account. That's OK, I don't think someone built an email thinking this option should be top priority. I can understand that.

But at least some services are quite honest in this matter, and if you don't use your account for specific days, it is deactivated and later, deleted for good. So much for data retention these days, uh?

Some useful information:

16 Points to Consider When Selecting an Email Hosting Provider

http://www.webmail.us/press-releases/2004/51

I just found out one service who has the option of remove your own account and doesn't need Javascript to be enabled:

InMail24

The problem is, you can't send any emails to Microsoft (Hotmail). They are rejected.

Another good choice (all accounts are deleted for inactivity):

OperaMail

The problem: you need to enable Javascript to make a new register.

I am currently looking for more options. Space disk is not an issue for me.

 

This is great! I have never heard of this one before. Thanks for the link.

 

My vote would go to Inbox.com as well. It is very nice and a good alternative to Gmail!

Just be sure to disable the Inbox.com newsletter in the settings once you sign up.