A-Topmail
A free, Austrian Web-based email service (in German) that comes with a basic feature set. Sign up. 

About.com Member Email
Free email for all About.com members with ICQ integration, filters (anti-spam, too), calendaring, and more. 

Alloy Mail
Mail.com providers visitors of Alloy Online with free Web-based email accounts. Sign up. 

AltaVista eMail
AltaVista offers some freely available domain names (altavista.net to mindless.com) and many for $14.95/year, but cannot (yet?) filter your mail. Sign Up. 

AmExMail
Excellent free Webmail from American Express with filtering and forwarding capabilities, and POP access, too, provided by USA.net. Sign Up. 

Animalhouse
From "fresh" to "post-graduate&quote; - everybody needs free email. Sign Up. 

ApexMail
ApexMail is a very powerful Web-based email solution offering lots of options (notably internationlization!) and features, most of them for free. Sign up. 

AtDot E-Mail Services
AtDot uses an existing POP3 account to receive mail. The mail sent from AtDot is as ad-free as the whole service. You can get the scripts that make up the service, too (under GPL). Sign Up. 

Backpackers.com Mail Stop
Backpackers.com is a community of travellers that also offers basic email functionality. Sign up. 

BEBI Free Mail
From the Business Ethics Bureau comes this free email service, which will not be unethical to you or your data... 

BellSouth WebEmail
The Southern Bell offers free email to citizens of one of the 9 BellSouth states: KY, TN, NC, SC, GA, AL, MS, LA, FL. The service is powered by Bigfoot and offers filtering, remindes, spam blocking. 

Britannica.com E-mail
"Messages transmitted and received by digital computers through a network." says the ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA. Britannica.com offers it, Web-based and for free. Sign up. 

BusinessWeek Mail
The world's largest business magazine (so they say), BusinessWeek, is now the largest business magazine offering free Web-based email. The latter, provided by commtouch, is business class and efficient. 

Caramail
An email address "@caramail.com" certainly sounds good; the service -- in French -- is usable, too. 

CasaBlanca
A bit limited in features (no folders, filters), but working email from casablancaresort.com. Sign up. 

Casino.com
The email account is free, and your chances are, too. 

CCNmail
Free Web-based email for the Christian community. Provided by Who Where? it does just that quite well. Sign up. 

ChinaByteMail
Free email in Chinese. (...!?) 

Club-VDO Email
Club VDO offers free email accounts (not only) for its members. Powered by iName, mail sent to the Club VDO address can be forwarded to another email account or read on the Web. Sign up. 

CMPnetMail
CMPnet's free email, provided by Iname, is powerful and usable, although dressed in the usual ugly CMPnet way. For a small fee you can also access your CMPnetMail account via POP3. Sign up. 

CNN Email
CNN's free email service (as well as that of the sister site CNN/SI, CNN/SI Email) is powered by iName and comes with proofed standard interface and standard features. Sign up. 

College Club
The College Club has great email functionality including paging and email through the telephone for US college students. Sign up. 

CONK!mail
CONK, on your line non guide on for sense, also offers free email accounts with many features like filters or delayed sending. The interface is simple in any possible way. Sign up. 

CoolMail
You can use CoolMail as just-another-free-Webmail, but this service gives you the option to listen to your email on the phone and delete or respond to it right away. Sign up. 

Daily Web Planner
The `Daily Web Planner', a free online PIM featuring calendar, address book, and Web bookmarks also offers a simple (but usable) email account. Sign up. 

Depeche Mode Mail
Free email accounts for depeche mode fans. They're as usable as those of most other services and certainly as pretty. Sign Up. 

Discoverymail
Free email from Discovery Channel Online. Provided by commtouch, the service is clean and usable. Sign Up. 

EarthCam Email
Free email from EarthCam. Free email is nice, but also have a look at EarthCam itself, a directory of live Net cams... 

Educast
Free email for teachers, making it easy to communicate with parents, students etc. 

email.com
From SNAP! and C|net, the iName-powered email.com offers what they want to be seen as the most intuitive domain name for an email address: "email.com". Sign Up. 

Eudora Web-Mail
The most popular email package goes web-mail. Not Eudora yet, but rock-solid whowhere technology makes it usable. Auto-reply and spam filtering, no other filters though. Sign up. 

ExciteUK Mail
The version of MailExcite that comes from (or to) the United Kingdom works just like its US counterpart but comes with UK ads which may or may be not an advantage (for Excite it surely is). 

ExciteMail Deutschland
Excite also provides a free email service for German users in German language with functionality similar or equal to the main service. 

FANSonly Email
fansonlymail.com and iname.com (dhuh) are free, eaglesfan.com, redraidersfan.com etc. cost a (rather laughable) fee. Apart from the address, usable web-based email. Sign up. 

Fiberia
Yet another free email account service. This one uses MailMan, and is simple, but works. Sign up. 

FindLaw's @JusticeMail.com
The free email accounts powered by WhoWhere?! and provided by FindLaw run under then name `JusticeMail' and that's also what your address will look like: "[email protected]". Other than that it's `just mail'. Sign up. 

finfin.com
Free web-based email as your favorite online pet. Works (if and as far as that is applicable here). Sign up. 

Firemail
In spite of its English title Firemail is a German free Web-based email service in German. 

FishingLife.com Email
Fishing for a free email account? FishingLife.com offers them for those who love fishing. 

FortuneCity.com Mail
FortuneCity.com is an online `community'. Thus, they virtually have to offer free email; they do. The technology is provided by CommTouch and works. Sign Up. 

freemail
South Africa's free email service. It's not too different in South Africa than anywhere else, though (surprise, surprise!). 

Freemail
It's called freemail everywhere, even the Dutch incarnation. Aanmelden! does sound better than Subscribe!, though. The service is not better, but it's not worse either. 

Friendly E-mail
Friendly email offers simple and easy to use for domains such as "schoolemail.com" or "collegemail.com"; also offers forwarding to an existing email address. 

GameSpot Mail
Powered by Commtouch, GameSpot offers a great and extremely feature-full (ICQ message notification! filters!) free Web-based email service. Definitely not for gamers only. 

GarbageMail
With GarbageMail you can make the daily mail-check a Garbagy, inspiring experience; nice, usable email accounts. Sign Up. 

Garfield's G-mail
Garfield's G-mail provides a nice-to-look-at email account with folders and an address book. 

theglobe.com
theglobe.com's free email is provided by WhoWhere and provides you with what is necessary to use Web-based email including the ability to check existing POP accounts. 

glossy... email
GLoSSy has free email for grrlz (only?). Sign up. 

GMX
Though in German, Global Message Exchange (GMX) is one of the best free email services that also allows POP3 access to your account. Sign up. 

GO Network Mail
The Disney/Infoseek GO Network provides a really usable free Web-based email service that is visually simple and efficient. 

GTE WebMail
iName supplies the technology behind GTE's WebMail. This means appropriately reliable and usable Web email that can be forwarded to an existing email account.rb Sign Up. 

HBZMail
Free email for kids - and their concerned parents. Any mail from people not on the 'list' is automatically forwarded to them; comforting? Sign up. 

Homework Central Freeemail
Homework Central provides free email accounts for students and teachers. Of course, as human beings, we are students for all of our lives, are we not? Sign up. 

HotBot Mail
Free email from HotBot/Lycos, powered by WhoWhere?! and working reliably. (Too bad the "Hot" name for mail was already taken, huh?) 

Hotmail Mail Service
Web-based email which also can collect mail from your POP accounts. The commonest of the free email services with reported 8 million subscribers...and it still works pretty well. Sign up. 

HotPOP
This great service offers free email accounts that can be accessed with POP3 (i.e. with almost any email client). It is supported by allowing (selected) advertisers to send messages to the free accounts. Sign up. 

HushMail
HushMail is a very impressive free encrypted (!) Web-based email system. It uses Java to make your email truly private. 

ICQmail
When 450 characters are not enough. ICQ not only offers the instant messaging service I personally like best but also a nice Web-based email system. 

ID-base - Free Web Mail Service
ID-base offers a simple, quick and easy Web-based email system. Sign up. 

ihateclowns.com
If you hate clowns you will love this free email service. Sign up. 
 
 
 
 

JewishMail
The Jewisch Communication Network provides this free email service run with WhoWhere? technology. Not beautiful, not sophisticated, but: it works. Sign up. 

Jokes.com
May you only send and receive funny emails here. Sign up. 

Juno
Free email across the US for people without Internet access. A special Windows program brings you the mail and the ads. Get it. 

juniormail
With juniormail, ProntoMail aims to attract young email users; and only those: access restricted to under 18's only. 

Jump!
Jump start your (online) day with this free Web-based PIM including, of course, a usable email service. Sign up. 

LA.com Email
Free email accounts for those living in Los Angeles (and those liking the city). 

LookSmart Mail
LookSmart wants is a portal and a portal needs to provide free email accounts; LookSmart does with CommTouch technology. Useful if you want (your email address) to look smart. 

Lovemail
Neatly designed (the broken hearted will hate it) and quite powerful Web-based email. They require a lot of demographic information, however. 

LycosEmail
You can search the search engines for the best free email service soon. At Lycos you can get nice addresses provided by Iname... Sign up.

Macintosh Email
The only thing this free email service has in common or at least to do with Macintosh is the name, as far as I can see... but that shouldn't hurt.

Mail Check
This free email solution from Chek is reasonably powerful and usable with its filtering capabilities. Sign up.

Mail.com
Mail.com offers free Web-based email accounts with many different domain names (from usa.com over europe.com to cheerful.com). Premium services include POP access and extra storage space.

MailandNews.com
The free mailboxes at MailandNews.com are accessible via the Web, smart phones, IMAP4 and POP3! This also works in the other direction, from POP3 or IMAP4 account to MailandNews.com. Sign up.

MailCity
A robust and usable free Web-based email service from the Lycos network of sites. Sign up.

MailExcite
Free email accounts for Excite and WebCrawler visitors and others. Sign Up.

Mail.EntrepreneurMag.Com
WhoWhere? and the Entrepreneur Magazine provide free email accounts for entrepreneurs (and to not-yet-entrepeneurs). Sign up.

MailPuppy
MailPuppy is not only a cute, but also a big (10MB!) and useful ("color sorting") free email retriever.

Martindale-Hubbell Email
iName powers this free email service at Martindale-Hubbell's, accessible via the Web, POP3, or by forwarding to an existing account. Sign up.

MauiMail
Free email. "From Paradise", if that matters to you. Running on Macintosh, if that matters to you. Not extremely good, not extremely bad otherwise. Sign up.

Medsite MedMail
Medsite's MedMail provides a great free Web-based email service for the medical community. MedMail even offers email encryption.

Message To
Free email without spam: every sender not yet known to the system is asked to confirm she is no spammer before the message is delivered.

Music.com
Based on CommTouch technology, Music.com makes email addresses like "[email protected]" possible -- for you.

My Own Email
My Own Email has your own email account. While attachments are currently not supported there is an auto-reply function (should be interesting if you send yourself email).Sign up.

myCooLm@iL
Simple Web-based email. You bring the CooLnesS. The option to receive mail at your regular address when you receive mail here is interesting... Sign up.

N2Mail
N2Mail comes with the usual (usual means good) Lycos/WhoWhere features. The bonus is a pretty large selection of available domain names from "n2adventure" to "n2wrestling". Sign up.

Nando Mail
Free Web-based email from Nando.net, the Internet news classic, with standard functionality and interface; while the standards are pretty high there is no mail filtering.

NetAddress
Very good free email service on the Web, with the most features: apart from filters and mailboxes it is possible to schedule mail, even daily or weekly or whatever you can think of. Sign up.

netgenieMail
netgenie, the ISP, offers free Web-based email accounts not only for its members but -- for everybody.

Net-Guy.com
Net-Guy.com gives you a POP3 email addresses at their host for free.

NetScan SE
NetScan SE offers free banner-supported email accounts; while the Web interface is not as sophisticated as with the likes of Hotmail, NetScan SE allows you to get your email via any POP3 email client. Sign up.

NewMail
A nice, fast, simple free email service that provides POP access additionally to the browser interface.

NJO E-Mail
New Jersey has free email accounts for New Jerseyans (correct?) and everybody else as well with domain names like "ilove.nj.com" or "boss.nj.com" or "rutgersalumini.nj.com"... Sign Up.

Office Domain
Not only free Web-based email but the attempt of unified messaging over the Web, Office Domain offers voice-to-email and fax-to-email services as well as pager and cell phone message alerts. Sign up.

OperaMail
They make the "other" browser. They also make a "normal" Web-based email service. It carries the name of the other browser, however...

Password Email
Thepassword's passWordls also contains an email world, builing community. Certainly nice for Password users.

PathfinderMail
In an attempt to create community New Media adds basic web-based email capabilities to their Pathfinder site. Powered by Globecomm, it has everything you really need. Sign up.

PersonalConnections
Very nice free email accounts accessible via the Web come from PersonalConnections who also give you server space, an online business card and a whiteboard with it. Log in. Sign up.

Planet Access E-mail
Planet Access offers very fast and easy to use Web-based email accounts. Sign up.

Popmail
In spite of the name, Popmail does not offer POP access to its accounts. Since Popmail is not loaded with features and kept very simple, the Web access is easy to use, though. Sign up.

ProntoMail
Basic free Web-based email. Pretty colors and not too much advertising (yet). Rather rudimentary feature set, but it works.

Race Mail
Racing fans can get a free email account, too. Available domain names include "AllRacing.com", "DirtRacer", "BikeRacer", and more. Sign Up.

The Raging Bull
The site for the raging bulls on the markets not only offers them free real-time quotes but also free real-time email.

RESpublica Mail
The name of the site is Latin, the site itself is French, and the email account is simple. Sign up.

RocketMail
The free email from Four11/Yahoo comes with the usual interface and the usual feature list, among them mail filtering to multiple folders or a different background. sign-ups are directed to Yahoo! Mail.

ROTFL
Apart from a usable email account (though the design may not be everybody's taste) ROTFL has 2MB of free space for your website.

SinaMail
Free Chinese email. It can convert Big-5 or GB to GIF images.

SpeedyM@il
There is something spectacular to this otherwise unspectacular, but useful email service: it tries to look like Net@ddress.

SportsLine Email
Web-based email from iName for sporty people... or those who `look' sporty. Standard features. Sign up.

Star Trek Mail
Free email for trekkies. A number of domains are available, from "startrek.com" to "deepspacenine.com", but also "hesdeadjim.com" (?).

Start
They claim to have started free email in Australia; but even if they have not the service is useful and cute (weather headlines), and eye-appealing; no folders/filters other than blocking, though. Sign Up.

Student.Com
Student.Com claims to bring college life online; they also bring free email to students for free.

Web Email
Free email accounts with a plain, maybe too plain interface. You can send mail, you can receive mail, you can do it quickly and it's free. What else do you want?

Wyrm
Wyrm is a basic free web-based email account. You can receive messages, move them to folders and send mail. Sign Up.

USA.com Email
Patriotic (?) email from "USA.com" to "flint.USA.com" and many, many places. Powered by iName, it works very well. Sign Up.

Velomail
Velomail is a free Web-based email service for those who want (need) to receive and write mail in other languages (e.g. Russian, Hebrew, Chinese even). It features a `virtual keyboard' that maps your keyboard to the language you write in.

Visto Briefcase
In the briefcase you get from Visto is a powerful Web-based email account, address book and calendar as well as (shareable) bookmarks and files. Sign Up.

WebMail (Netscape)
WebMail, provided by Netscape and USA.net, is probably the most powerful free web-based email available today. It includes such services as stationaries, autoresponders or vacation replies, premium services offer even more.

women.com Free email
Together with WhoWhere?! women.com offers free email accounts for all members of "the smart network". Sign Up.

Yahoo! Mail
Yahoo! does free email with RocketMail technology and usual Yahoo standard. Apart from features like filtering or POP account access a clean, quick and simple interface proves that.

ZDNet Mail
The free email accounts from publishing powerhouse Ziff-Davis is provided by WhoWhere?! and comes with a funcional interface to standard features. Sign up.

ZenSearch Mail
Free email from MailCHEK (usable, good filters), but with a nice blue-white design (the "cordon blue" site?) Sign Up