nightcraw1er.488: Well, loading up the old hotmail today after a few days away and looky here, M$ has been "improving" it again. Seriously though, what is their problem, it is just going from bad to worse. Half the time it refuses to work (on any browser), the other half the time it doesn't work as it did before. For instance, I had a mail in drafts before, where if I found a link then I would post it in their and look at it later. Tried that yesterday and it kept popping up previews of that page, annoying at best but not he end of the world. I look at that mail today and lo and behold all the links in the post have gone. They show in the preview, and I can copy out the source and get them that way, but just opening it in outlook shows nothing.

So, does anyone have any good suggestions for a replacement web mail? I know gmail, which is ok as long as you don't have anything you don't want the entire population of the US to read. The others seem to be either plagued by bad interfaces, or poor support (looking at GMX comments here), or completely awash with adverts.

Any suggestions, even paid might be better at this point.

nightcraw1er.488: Well, loading up the old hotmail today after a few days away and looky here, M$ has been "improving" it again. Seriously though, what is their problem, it is just going from bad to worse. Half the time it refuses to work (on any browser), the other half the time it doesn't work as it did before. For instance, I had a mail in drafts before, where if I found a link then I would post it in their and look at it later. Tried that yesterday and it kept popping up previews of that page, annoying at best but not he end of the world. I look at that mail today and lo and behold all the links in the post have gone. They show in the preview, and I can copy out the source and get them that way, but just opening it in outlook shows nothing.

So, does anyone have any good suggestions for a replacement web mail? I know gmail, which is ok as long as you don't have anything you don't want the entire population of the US to read. The others seem to be either plagued by bad interfaces, or poor support (looking at GMX comments here), or completely awash with adverts.

Any suggestions, even paid might be better at this point.

Smannesman: If you're very private and a bit geeky, you could always run your own server :P

Maighstir: That's what I do (on an old Mac Mini running and old version of OS X Server, but that's beside the point), then set up Roundcube on the web server and you get what (in my opinion) is one of the best webmail interfaces I've used.

Smannesman: If you're very private and a bit geeky, you could always run your own server :P

Fairfox: I moved over to Gmail years ago, way less clunky, and nice 'n' neat. Winz.

Smannesman: Well yes, but unlike OP you're not trying to sell state secrets via your e-mail account.
Probably.

nightcraw1er.488: Indeed, and how did you know that...Mr Smith?

Anyways, yes, hadn't thought of linking the accounts. Gmail works at least so might just do that. Thanks for the suggestion darthspudius.

Maighstir: Gmail can fetch messages from your Hotmail/Live/Outlook account, which --of course-- makes Google aware of everything in said messages, and any messages you send will go directly from Gmail. I wouldn't suggest doing that if you're paranoid of Google snooping around.

nightcraw1er.488: Indeed, and how did you know that...Mr Smith?

Anyways, yes, hadn't thought of linking the accounts. Gmail works at least so might just do that. Thanks for the suggestion darthspudius.

ET3D: Is a Microsoft account really that much more secure and private that moving to Gmail is seen as a serious risk?