Web-Based Email Security

This page is about web-based email providers everyone can use: PC, WebTV, Mac. If being secure online doesn't concern you, please disregard this page. A whole pile of free email providers were tested and retested for security. They're rated here and more will be added as they check out. If anyone else tests ones in the "secure" list, and sees X-IP# in the header, please Email KACP immediately. If anyone has an email provider they think should be listed here, please send the URL for tests.

Some users give out a local email addy, and that can be dangerous. Email can be used to track you down, and using any ISP's email is NEVER smart. AOL users: never use your AOL email, or Screen name anywhere. For chat, try AIM instead. Get a free secure email, learn to use it and be safe. Even better, get a new ISP. There's hundreds of them, many totally free of charge. AOL won't miss you if you leave.

Testing procedure:

1. Created an account on each free server listed.
2. Sent a series of test emails (over a period of several days, at a variety of times) to a private addy, and read header info. One X-IP# showing constitutes "Unsecure."
3. "Unsecure" accounts are then tested under Anonymizer, which sends the Anonymizer X-IP# so the user is secure.

Results are grouped in 3 Email Provider categories:

• Secure (links provided)
• Secure (in Anonymizer, links provided)
• Unsecure (won't work in Anonymizer, no links provided, NOT recommended)

Secure

• ZipLip.com - The best of the bunch, so far. No downloads, no complicated form, just a simple, friendly interface.
• HushMail - Not bad, but Java-based, and requires downloads, so it's not available to WebTV users. Also, the opening page states if you use a Mac, you're out of luck. It's also much slower than ZipLip.
• MailAndNews - Not bad, other than constant downtime. Also, newsgroup access offends some.
• GoPlay - Secure but a pain, and down so much, it's hardly worth the effort.

Secure (in Anonymizer)

E-OmniNet | Farts

Unsecure (won't work in Anonymizer)
-- NOT RECOMMENDED --

Angelfire | DunlopDriver | Flashmail | HotMail | Lycos/MailCity (includes eudoramail.com)
Mail.com (includes AltaVista, CMPNet) | Yahoo

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