Free email and web hosting recommendations?

Following on from the "Zen - Anything better" thread, general opinion seems
to be that eternal-september is a good free newsgroup service. Are there
any recommendations for free email hosting and free web hosting providers
that are independent of the ISP?

I'm looking for POP access, though webmail would be a useful extra, and the
service must be run by a provider based in the EU, preferably UK-based,
because of personal privacy issues (a prudent person needs a moderate
degree of paranoia). Gmail and Hotmail are therefore excluded.

No such qualms about web hosting.

TIA

Mike Civil <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:3da2j7-dfj.ln1
@lucy.duncodin.org:

> In article <Xns9DCE61829EA31ChrisCheneyEternalSe@85.214.73.21 0>,
> Chris Cheney <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>service must be run by a provider based in the EU, preferably UK-based,
>>because of personal privacy issues (a prudent person needs a moderate
>>degree of paranoia). Gmail and Hotmail are therefore excluded.
>
> Using EU/UK based providers won't guarantee you email privacy at all. If
> you want any level of security at all you're better off using email
> encryption (eg Thunderbird/Enigmail) and then who you use as a provider
> wouldn't really matter and you'd have a much better choice of important
> stuff like service levels and cost etc. Mind you you'd probably have to
> educate everyone you communicate with as well

That seems to be an own goal :-)

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 08:33:35 +0000 (UTC), Chris Cheney wrote:
> Following on from the "Zen - Anything better" thread, general opinion seems
> to be that eternal-september is a good free newsgroup service. Are there
> any recommendations for free email hosting and free web hosting providers
> that are independent of the ISP?

I guess the recommendation is to not use a free providers as you
usually can't take your email address or web address with you if
decide to switch providers (maybe because you are unhappy with a
change the provider made to the service offered). So unless you are
happy to just walk away, then don't use a free provider.

For free email, gmx.com might be option though...


Christof

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Christof Meerwald <NOSPAM-seeMySig+ubz5+@usenet.cmeerw.org> wrote in
news:slrni5tvik.386.NOSPAM-(E-Mail Removed):

> On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 08:33:35 +0000 (UTC), Chris Cheney wrote:
>> Following on from the "Zen - Anything better" thread, general opinion
>> seems to be that eternal-september is a good free newsgroup service.
>> Are there any recommendations for free email hosting and free web
>> hosting providers that are independent of the ISP?
>
> I guess the recommendation is to not use a free providers as you
> usually can't take your email address or web address with you if
> decide to switch providers (maybe because you are unhappy with a
> change the provider made to the service offered). So unless you are
> happy to just walk away, then don't use a free provider.

This is not an issue - my email address is already redirected to my current
email provider and that redirection can easily be changed. Web address is,
for me, not a big problem.

> For free email, gmx.com might be option though...

I have been put off by the number of bad reviews compared with good
reviews.

Thanks