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Secure e-mail account

 
 
bencher
18:21 / 02.10.03

Anyone know of one that's free, secure and doesn't run into bugs that often(or is all that for something that's free a bit too much to ask)? My popmail account's not letting me in for the past ten minutes...
 
 
w1rebaby
19:13 / 02.10.03
What do you mean, "secure"?

My favourite is fastmail, personally.
 
 
nedrichards is confused
20:42 / 02.10.03
HushMail is secure as in encrypted and seems to work rather well but email is inherantly an open protocol and mixing it with security is a bit of an oxymoron. Until we all get and uses PGP/GPG keys that is I suppose.
 
 
Linus Dunce
21:15 / 02.10.03
Also, ten minutes down-time isn't long. I've had addresses become unusable for days, and once for a week!
 
 
bencher
23:02 / 02.10.03
Yeah, I though ten minutes was me just being a whiner.

In secure I guess it means being less of a target for hackers and stuff like that, I haven't the foggiest how oftern this happens, though a service that good probably draws more attention than otherwise.
 
 
at the scarwash
01:45 / 03.10.03
My favorite has been inbox.lv. It's apparently small and Latvian, has only been down twice so far (for about a day), and I get no spam whatsoever.
 
 
Tezcatlipoca
06:07 / 03.10.03
Or, of course, you could go for the ever trusty Postmaster. They offer a range of accounts, including a free one, have an excellent built in virus scanner and in the three years I've held an account with them I've never had a single piece of spam.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
15:09 / 03.10.03
Does anyone mind if I move to pop this across to the Conversation? It's not terribly Labby, and will probably garner more responses there.
 
 
nedrichards is confused
15:20 / 03.10.03
Postmaster are good. Yahoo aren't bad and hotmail is evil. And yes conversation worthy.
 
 
bencher
18:12 / 03.10.03
Conversations it is, yeah, wasn't sure if this was the right place from the beginning.
 
  
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