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Top 16 Free Email Services

By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com

If you are looking for a free email service, you can be picky. You'll be rewarded with plenty of storage, effective spam filtering, a fast interface, desktop email program access and more. Find the top 16 free email services to choose from reviewed here.

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11. BigString.com - Free Email Service

BigString.com - Free Email ServiceHeinz Tschabitscher
BigString.com is a free 2 GB email service that includes rich secure and certified mail services and lets you password-protect, expire or edit sent messages, for example.
Unfortunately, BigString.com is not equally well equipped for handling incoming mail and lacks organizing tools.
BigString.com Review

12. Lavabit - Free Email Service

Lavabit - Free Email ServiceHeinz Tschabitscher
Lavabit nets you a solid, secure and privacy-conscious email account which you can access in your email program using POP or IMAP and in your browser using a rudimentary web interface.
It's a pity Lavabit restricts statistical spam filtering to paid accounts and lacks a fully fledged web interface.
Lavabit Review

13. Zapak Mail - Free Email Service

Zapak Mail - Free Email ServiceHeinz Tschabitscher
Zapak Mail is a bare-bones free email service with unlimited storage and POP access to boot. With the exception of some background images, Zapak Mail offers no frills and does not help much with handling mail efficiently.
Zapak Mail Review

14. HotPOP - Free Email Service

HotPOP - Free POP3 Email ServiceHeinz Tschabitscher
HotPOP offers free, reliable email accounts you can use with any email program using POP3 and SMTP. In addition, HotPOP lets you forward incoming messages to multiple other addresses.
Unfortunately, HotPOP lacks IMAP access and a web-based email interface and is a bit short on storage space.
HotPOP Review

15. My Way Mail - Free Email Service

My Way Mail - Free Email ServiceHeinz Tschabitscher
My Way Mail is a clean, fast and fun (though not particularly advanced) free email service.
It lacks secure messaging and other advanced, non-essential features, though.
My Way Mail Review | My Way Mail Tips

16. Mail.com - Free Email Service

Mail.com - Free Email ServiceHeinz Tschabitscher
Mail.com is great for its domain names (use them with forwarding!), but it is missing some of the security and convenience of other web-based email services.

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