Specialized E-mail Freebies

• myTrashMail.com 
  This free service offers temporary, disposable E-mail accounts that you can use to protect your privacy and also reduce the spam you receive. It's a handy service to use when you're reluctant to use your main, primary E-mail address when you're prompted to enter an E-mail address online.

• YourMailingListProvider.com 
  Would you like to set up a newsletter for your site's visitors? This site offers free, ad-supported hosting for mailing lists. It's easy to set up: all you need to do is sign up, and then cut and paste a section of HTML to your pages (which creates a subscription form, which your visitors can use to sign up for your newsletter). This service is offered in English, French and Dutch versions.

• Everyone.net 
  (Note: This service is no longer free. The basic package now costs $9.95 per month). Have you ever wanted to offer a free E-mail service of your own to your site's visitors (just like the big boys like Yahoo and Lycos)? Everyone.net offers such a service: they offer industrial strength, branded E-mail that you can customize to match your site's appearance. What's more, you can earn revenue with this service (You get half of the ad inventory to run your own banners).

• MailStart.Com 
  (Note: this service is no longer free). This service allows you to use your browser to read your E-mail, reply, forward, delete and send new messages, making your E-mail accessible from anywhere. There's no need to obtain a different E-mail address or to have your mail forwarded; this system is a gateway that actually contacts your mail server and converts the content to HTML allowing easy access to your regular E-mail.

• SpamCop 
  This free service helps you fight unsolicited junk E-mail and helps you punish spammers by reporting them (which is normally a tedious, technical process). There's a helpful FAQ here to help you get started.

• T-Mail.com 
  This free, easy-to-use service will translate your E-mail for you. You can use it to help ease the language barrier with your friend and business contacts overseas. Supported languages are English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. Note that the translations are done by computer and, as a result, may be flawed, and "cannot be relied upon for documents which require precise translation."

• Mailto Encoder 
  Fight spam with this free service, which will format your E-mail address in a way that makes it unreadable by any E-mail extractor or search engine (the favorite tools of spammers).

• E-mail Reminders & Alerts 
  This is a roundup of E-mail reminder services that can help you organize your life and remind you of anything from changing your car's oil to birthdays and anniversaries.