Free email accounts and services provide a variety of options and benefits. This is not a comprehensive list, but you will find services that have something particularly unique or useful to offer. Using a spare free email account is a great way to help keep spam out of your main email account Get one or more for yourself.
Perhaps you have used Mailinator, Sneakemail, or one of the many other temporary free email accounts, but, I bet you have never used one this easy. 2Prong.com is the first such service to require no more than just visiting the site to be ready to paste your junk email address in the email field of whatever registration form you are about to submit.
Everyone who gives out their email address in online registrations needs a means of inbox protection from spam. Sneakemail provides a very convenient and effective means of hiding your real email address without the risk of missing important email like offer confirmations.
Mailinator offers you any email address you want -- for a few hours. This may make Mailinator the ultimate disposable email account. You can make up any email address you want using the mailinator domain. You then go to mailinator.com and check that account for any email received. The email is kept for a couple hours and then deleted.
The Bigfoot basic service offers free Web based email. You can have up to 25 messages per day forwarded to another address. They use anti-spam lists to help filter out unsolicited email.
Find out the benefits of registering for one or more free email accounts.
Fortunately there is a new trend among some free email providers to dole out more email storage space than most people will ever be able to fill
Students can join College Club for free and get free email, instant messaging, chat and message boards all geared toward college students.
A small program that allows you to easily keep track of up to eight email accounts simultaneously including AOL, AltaVista, email.com, GO, Hotmail, Lycos, Mail.com, Netscape, POP3, Rediffmail, Switchboard, USA, Yahoo, ZDNetOneBox and hundreds of other email domains.
FastMail.FM is a great alternative to some of the other services like Yahoo and Hotmail that seem to be getting too big for their (our) own good. The free guest level account offers plenty of features and 10 megs of storage.
iVillage is centered around women's interests, but anyone can sign up. Full featured email powered by Lycos. Lot's of options for spam filtering. They frequently have free or bargain offers.
This is one of the fastest and most reliable of the large free email services. Their spam blocking works well, but hotmail addresses almost seem to attract spam. They allow 2 megs of storage for free accounts.
LetterClick allows you to send elegent or professional looking email which looks more like a letter.
Lycos Mail features spam filtering, wireless access to email, and six megs of storage.
HotPOP offers a free POP mail (like your ISP mail account) or forwarding service. They are supported by an opt-in advertising list to which you subscribe when you set up your account.
Mail2web allows you to check your POP email account on the Web. You can use it without registering. One of my favorite uses is to delete messages that clogging my inbox.
Mail.com provides most of the bells and whistles of the other big sites plus you can choose from hundreds of domains for your address. They allow 10 megs of storage.
Stealth Message allows you to send private encrypted and anonymous email for free.
When you sign up for Yahoo Mail you are also registered for all of Yahoo's free services. You need to pay attention to their messages to users, as they have been known to make big changes in their privacy policy. They have done ridiculous things such as turning on the settings for all email newsletters of people who had already unselected them.
This is a free email service that emphasizes privacy and security. Your message is encrypted and it stays on their server until read. Recipients get a notification and come to the site to read the message.
If you are looking for a more comprehensive list of free email accounts, please check out this list from our Email Guide, Heinz Tschabitscher.
