OT: good free email service?

[Mike]

On 11/9/2018 12:42 PM, Alejandro Imass wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 11:20 AM Valeri Galtsev <galtsev at kicp.uchicago.edu>
> wrote:
> 
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I know it is an oxymoron: good free ... service ;-)
>>
>> Still, can someone recommend good free email service?
>>
>>
> There used to be many, maybe Linuxmail is still around etc. but the truth
> is that anything "free" is in exchange for your privacy in one way or
> another. Even on some paid services, they may still put something in the
> T&C such that they can share data for marketing purposes.
> 
> So IMO you are left with 2 choices:
> 
> 1) Setup you own server (e.g. FreeBSD ;-)) and manage your own email server.
> 2) Pay some good and relatively inexpensive party to manage your email
> 
> I did (1) for years until I got fed up with controlling spam, viruses, spf,
> reverse DNS, and being put (or putting others) on black lists etc. But it
> works and it's free.
> 
> After I discovered HushMail I am very happy to pay the $60 or so per user
> per year. It's really NOTHING if you cherish your privacy and your time:
> 
> https://www.hushmail.com
> 
> There are probably others like them, but I cannot recommend anything I
> haven't used myself. And I recommend these guys two hands down.

I have been using PrivateEmail for a few years with no issues.  I use it
with Thunderbird (POP3 and SMTP both over TLS, I've not used the IMAP
capability).

https://www.namecheap.com/hosting/email.aspx