Good free email providers?

[capt_cornflake]

And of course encryption is only useful if the recipient is set up to decrypt it correctly...

[watercooled]

Fastmail's privacy policy looks fine to me, better than most.

From what I can tell, they don't make impossible claims like GMX, for example, "No Chance For Viral Attacks" - they can't guarantee that, either they're lying or don't have a good understanding of the subject; either way it's somewhat concerning.

On the subject of encryption: PGP (GnuPG is a commonly used implementation) can be a faff to set up, and both ends need to use it. It's probably not what you're expecting, but it's about the only real solution if you want end-end encryption, and you will need compatible software on every device/computer you want to read the email on.

[ZaO]

You use most (possibly even all) email providers with encrypted mail, which I guess is what you're looking for. Take a peek at http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-...pg-encryption/ - to secure your data it needs to be encrypted during transit otherwise it's completely insecure and should be treated as such. Also bear in mind that this will only encrypt email that you send - anything inbound is very likely to be sent unencrypted.

Cool, thanks for the link. I shall have a proper read through that soon!